About the Project

When the category of sex is replaced with “gender identity” in law and policy, women suffer.

Nowhere is this more true than in prisons. Female inmates are among the most marginalized women in society. Nearly all incarcerated women have suffered abuse at the hands of men. To house men with women in prisons constitutes cruel and unusual punishment and is, according to the principles of the Geneva Convention and the Nelson Mandela Rules, a human rights violation.

We have compiled this publicly available data to show that the alleged “one-offs” are actually a systemic pattern of abuse against vulnerable women perpetrated by men and sanctioned by the state.

The Not Our Crimes Prison Project is 100% volunteer-run. We aggregate information from publicly available sources, fact-check the information, and are continually adding to the database. If you are aware of an individual who you believe should be included but does not appear in the database, please submit a tip.

Women’s Declaration International is the author of the Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights.

An all-women and all-volunteer organization, WDI seeks to fight the discrimination women experience when the category of sex is replaced with that of “gender identity” in law and policy.

In 2021 and 2023, WDI USA investigated policies around the incarceration of men in women’s prisons. Volunteers sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to states across the country and compiled the responses received.

The panel “Current Advocacy Efforts to Protect Incarcerated Women” was presented at WDI USA’s Indianapolis convention. Facilitated by Irene Lawrence, the panel features Lauren Bone, Elspeth Cypher, and Amie Ichikawa as speakers.