It’s a women-only prison, but that didn’t stop two female inmates from getting pregnant by a third inmate. The Department of Corrections said the pregnancy occurred through a consensual relationship with an incarcerated person at the Edna Mahan Correction Facility, the state’s only all-female prison.
The DOC said the two women were impregnated by a transgendered woman, a biological male identifying as a woman.
The state says 27 prisoners housed in Edna Mahan are transgendered. Under New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s administration, in 2021, a policy change allowed prisoners to be imprisoned according to their preferred gender. Transgendered women at the prison are not required to have undergone gender reassignment surgery to be housed in the facility.