Faith Booher-Smith, a 28-year-old woman and inmate at Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), was viciously attacked on August 7 by a 6’4” male child molester identifying as a transgender woman. When I saw Booher-Smith’s story, I thought to myself, “That could have been me.”

I spent nearly five years in the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, one of the largest women’s prisons in the country, and saw firsthand how critical single-sex spaces are for the safety and dignity of incarcerated women. Having access to that single-sex space after I committed a serious crime was crucial for my rehabilitation, and that of countless women in my position.

But in Washington, and around the country, dangerous policies are allowing men into women’s prisons and risking female inmates’ lives and chances at rehabilitation.

In California, I lived through the fallout of Senate Bill 132, passed in 2020, which allowed male inmates........

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