Just a few months ago I completed my first gender affirming surgery. I can not verbalize the happiness I felt for finally being able to

There is no doubt or surprise to NJDOC that I am a woman who is transgender and approved for surgery. For more than a year

As DOC puts me through hell I wonder if I’ll make it to surgery When you hear the word trauma what do you think? For

These last months have been a uphill battle foe me, and I did not quite know when the pain would end. Being transgender and incarcerated

Today I was sanctioned to 275 days of solitary confinement, staff stated that they confiscated my word processor and then found pills and a flash

Each day I begin to drift farther in a depression , from simply thinking about the separation that is going to take place after I

Around Thursday July 28, 2022 I began feel hopeless, and as if I was being ignored. I had already met with the central offices staff,

On June 24, 2022 I was shipped to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility (male facility), due to the fact that I had hung myself in

My grandfather was a Correctional officer for 25 years; he worked at New Jersey State prison. Since a child I have had a level of

This week I was advised that EMCF Administration has entered a “Keep Separate Order” for me and Latonia, as such we are not to have