A transgender inmate who Illinois authorities agreed to move from one male prison after claims of abuse says the mistreatment has continued at the new location in another male prison, causing them such despair that she’s tried to kill herself.
The accusations come in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday for 27-year-old Deon Hampton against Illinois’ Department of Corrections. Hampton, who goes by “Strawberry,” is serving a 10-year burglary sentence.
Hampton is seeking to become one of the state’s first transgender inmates to be granted a transfer to an all-female prison.
Hampton was transferred to the Lawrence Correctional Center in January from the Menard prison under an agreement in a separate lawsuit.