16-year-old transgender girl has been imprisoned in solitary for a month without criminal charges
(CNN) -- A 16-year-old transgender girl in Connecticut is at the center of controversy after she was transferred to an adult prison, where she has been held for more than a month without criminal charges.
"Jane Doe," as she is listed in court documents, has been in the York Correctional Facility in Niantic, Connecticut, since April 8, spending the majority of her time there in solitary confinement, her attorney said.
"I tell myself that this is just a nightmare, but it doesn't end. I know that I need to work on my issues and I want to, but this is not the place," she wrote in an op-ed published in the Hartford Courant in late April.
She was ordered to the women's prison after the state Department of Children and Families concluded that she was "dangerous to ... herself or others or cannot be safely held," according to the memorandum of the judge's decision.
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