Transgender inmate files suit against Marion prison for physical and sexual abuse

A transgender woman has filed a civil rights case against Marion prison officials and staff, alleging they failed to protect her from physical and sexual abuse while in prison.

The civil rights complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in Toledo last month by attorneys for a former Marion Correctional Institution inmate who has been living as a woman for 26 years, according to the complaint.

In the complaint, she alleges that staff and officials at Marion Correctional Institution were "deliberately indifferent" to the risks posed to her safety as a black, transgender inmate, resulting in two violent attacks in 2018 and 2019 that the woman and her attorneys say were "foreseeable and preventable."