mandates that prison staff members immediately report and document knowledge or suspicion of sexual harassment or assault.Smith's attorneys, Jen Orthwein and Felicia Medina, argue that cases like Smith's illustrate why many transgender survivors do not report sexual assault behind bars.The CDCR "knows that there's widespread PREA violations, and what it does is it uses [disciplinary] process[es] against folks who are the most impacted, such as C.
Jay, who is a transgender woman of color, because she reported sexual assault," Medina said in an interview. "She was set up."Smith is at least the sixth transgender or gender-nonconforming prisoner to have sued the state or its officials in recent years.