Trans Woman’s ‘Cruel and Unusual’ Case Over Prison Rape Renewed

A transgender woman who served time in federal prison will get a new chance to argue prison officials violated her Eighth Amendment rights by failing to stop a fellow inmate from stabbing and raping her after she repeatedly expressed safety concerns, the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday.

She went to federal prison in June 2015 to serve a 96-month sentence for creating a fraudulent “tax services” firm. The woman, who had undergone hormone replacement therapy, was housed with 11 men in a cell that, like others, didn’t have a lock.

She reported her concerns to prison officials and had been rated ...