sued the state in 2021, alleging she had been discriminated against based on her gender identity, and had suffered “ongoing harassment” by staff and fellow prisoners at both the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem and at the Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla, due to her gender presentation.
Zombie has claimed that the state Department of Corrections did not take significant action to stop the harassment and harm to which she was subjected.
This includes being sexually harassed and assaulted by her cellmate at the Oregon State Penitentiary — who was serving a 40-year sentence for multiple violent crimes against women — and subsequently, by another cellmate, a sex offender, at Two Rivers.When she complained about the assaults, and one of her former cellmates was disciplined, she was harassed by other inmates for “snitching,” and repeatedly misgendered by correctional officers, according to The Oregonian.U.S.
District Judge Ann Aiken ordered DOC officials to classify Zombie as a vulnerable person, and allow her to shower or dress in private, and not in front of male prisoners or staff.
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