A former cop who was jailed for murdering her husband has slammed California’s woke incarceration laws for housing her with a transgender triple murderer accused of harassing female prisoners.
Tomiekia Johnson, who shot her husband Marcus Lemons in February 2009, told DailyMail.com she has been ogled and tormented by several transgender inmates in her years behind bars, including recently by Dana Rivers – a former transgender activist who killed a lesbian couple and their adopted son in a hate crime in 2016.
‘I feel betrayed’, Johnson told DailyMail.com. ‘I was very vocal about not being housed in the same unit (as Rivers) – they did it anyway.’
She claims that since California passed a controversial law in 2021 allowing convicts to choose their prison based on their gender identity, female inmates in Central California Women’s Facility are ‘afraid to speak out’. She said prison officials systemically punish those who question the ‘progressive’ move.
After filing a report about Rivers in June, she claims not only was she fired from her job as an educator in the prison, but that she was directly punished by prison officials who locked her in solitary confinement for eight hours after she made the complaint.
Rivers has reportedly been wreaking havoc in the California prison, which houses over half of the state’s female prison population, after she was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in June.
At her sentencing, judge Scott Patton said the killings were ‘the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years’.
Johnson’s crime captured headlines in 2009, when the California Highway Patrol officer shot her husband after the couple went drinking at a TGI Fridays.
Johnson claims she fired by accident after Lemons tried to grab the gun, but her claims of domestic abuse were not enough to avoid a guilty verdict for murder in 2012.