Two women have fallen pregnant in prison after having sex with a transgender inmate.
The pair are being held at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton, New Jersey which houses 800 people, including 27 trans women.
In a letter sent to US radio station, NJ 105.5, an inmate at the institution claimed that one of the women was five months pregnant.
The letter also says that the prisoners had a history of sex acts in public areas and had to be separated from each other as a result, the Mirror reports.
It's understood that Demi Minor, who helps run a website called Justice 4 Demi from the facility, was responsible for the pregnancies.
The website notes that she was sentenced to 30 years behind bars for manslaughter when she was 16-years-old.
She wrote on it: "Surprisingly I am three months pregnant and I conceived while incarcerated here at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.
"Although Edna Mahan breeds a 'pervasive culture of rape,' I WAS NOT RAPED, nor was I forced to do anything that I did not want to do.
"Despite it not being permitted I fell in love and had consensual sex with a woman who is trans.
"Consensual sex is a prohibited act in Edna Mahan."
A woman said to be the mother of one of the children also wrote a blog on the website called ''Freedom, Love, Pregnancy and Trauma.'
She said that she found “love in a hopeless place" - a Rihanna song quote - and that she is a 31-year-old and serving a life sentence.
New Jersey began housing trans inmates in women's prisons last year following a lawsuit by the state's American Civil Liberties Union.
The call came after a transgender woman said that she was abused while incarcerated in an all-male prison.
New Jersey's policy does not require trans women inmates to undergo gender-reassignment surgery to be held in the facility.
It has received some backlash with two prisoners at Edna Mahan filing a lawsuit to end New Jersey’s gender identity policy for prisons.
They claimed that they were harassed by trans inmates and that transgender prisoners were having sex with female prisoners.
New Jersey Policemen's Benevolent Association (NJ PBA), a union for state correction officers, also criticised the policy.
President William Sullivan told NJ.com: "We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution."
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