The New York City government will pay $1.4 million as part of a settlement agreement brokered with the estate of Alyssa Rodriguez, a transgender woman who in 2018 was sexually assaulted twice while being held on Rikers Island in a facility for male detainees.
According to court papers, Rodriguez was placed in Rikers Island’s all-male Anna M. Kross Center in April 2018 while being held for pretrial detention—despite the fact that she presented as a woman and that some corrections employees expressed surprise that she would be placed in that particular facility, where she was housed in an open sleeping area with male detainees.
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