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Trans NJ Inmate Failed By Nearly Every System Mutilated Genitals, Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Trans NJ Inmate Failed By Nearly Every System Mutilated Genitals, Attempted Suicide: Lawyer
Trans NJ Inmate Failed By Nearly Every System Mutilated Genitals, Attempted Suicide: Lawyer Demi Minor has spent her whole life fighting. Fighting to dismantle the foster-system-to-prison pipeline. Fighting for her rights. Fighting to be respected. The 27-year-old transgender woman was transferred against her will last month to a men's facility after impregnating two prisoners at the Edna Mahan Corrections Facility, she and her lawyer Derek Demeri said. And now that Minor is in the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, she is going to have to fight some more. This time, for her life. Minor began mutilating her genitals and tried killing herself in a van on the way to the me…

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