3 times men allowed to be housed in women's prisons harmed, impregnated inmates

Triple murderer of women and child moved to women's prison

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Michael Contreras - California

Amie Ichikawa, the head of the Woman II Woman prison advocacy group and a former inmate, warned during The Christian Post’s “Unmasking Gender Ideology” event in March about the conditions at the Central California Women’s Facility for women due to Senate Bill 132. She warned that the law places women at risk of sexual assault.

According to a February 2022 complaint obtained by CP, Cathleen Quinn, a woman who has been incarcerated for over 20 years, saw a male inmate staring at her as she entered the dayroom restroom area. Quinn said the male inmate was Michael Contreras who was convicted of murder in 1982 and identified as a woman named Eva Reeves.

Quinn filed a complaint with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation after she saw Contreras ignore signs that the restroom was in use on more than one occasion. Another rules violation report (RVR) filed by a separate inmate in July 2022 accused the male inmate of walking in on Quinn while she showered, ignoring the towel she had hung outside the entrance signaling the shower was in use and the woman wanted her privacy.

The complaint also cited a March 2022 article Contreras wrote for the San Francisco Bay View, where he acknowledged that “consensual sex takes place” between trans-identified biologically male inmates and female inmates. He also wrote that some trans inmates that identify as women have intact penises and get erections around the women inmates.

Ichikawa said that despite initially granting Quinn parole, commissioners vacated her parole suitability over new findings, which included an RVR purportedly for false reporting and harassment. She was later found not guilty, and the accusations were dropped.

“I don’t think it’s any coincidence that she’s a Christian conservative either,” Ichikawa said. “She’s been too committed to standing firm on her values and she’s not bending, so I really feel like she’s the lynchpin for the whole game plan here.”

A CDCR spokesperson told CP at the time that they were not aware that there had ever been an instance of an inmate being denied parole due to “misgendering” another person.