A former prison inmate has won a federal civil rights case against the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC), which she accused of forcing her to room with a biological male who assaulted her, according to her lawyer.
Mozzy Clark said in a lawsuit initially filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma in December 2024 that corrections officers did not take her seriously when she complained that a transgender-identifying inmate who had been transferred from a men’s prison had been harassing her. Her lawyer, David Pivtorak, announced that a jury unanimously awarded her $150,000 in the case.
“A unanimous federal jury in deep-blue Tacoma just awarded my client $150,000 for violation of her constitutional rights in this case,” the lawyer wrote.
“We are also scheduled to go to trial in February against the Department of Corrections in state court on her negligence claims,” he added.
