California’s women’s prisons house just under 4,000 people, and since the state’s Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act (SB 132) took effect, 48 men have transferred into those facilities, a policy decision that is now the subject of a federal investigation.

A criminal case out of Madera County is moving through the courts, and women who have raised concerns about their housing conditions have faced institutional consequences. What did the transfer criteria actually require?

Amie Ichikawa, executive director of Woman II Woman, joins the show to walk through the transfer criteria, the committee process, and what the women inside can and cannot say.

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