FFS Friday: Mozzy Clark

January 3, 2025

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Today’s FFS Friday honors Mozzy Clark, who is suing the Washington State Department of Corrections (and a handful of individual correctional officers) over its policy of housing men in the state women’s prison.

Mozzy Clark is the named plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Corrections, which has a policy of housing male inmates in the state’s only women’s prison on the basis of their claimed woman “gender identities.”

All US states are required to house some men in women’s prisons under certain circumstances, because of regulations that went into effect under President Obama in 2012 (the Prison Rape Elimination Act regulations). That’s terrible, in my view. No men should ever be housed in a women’s prison, under any circumstances. Housing men in a women’s prison is in direct violation of the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. However, for several years, at least some gatekeeping was required; people could not be housed in a facility of their choice, solely on the basis of their self-declared identity.

As far as I can tell, Washington state started housing men in the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) simply on the basis of their alleged woman “gender identities” (with no gatekeeping) in 2020.¹ The policy is WA DOC 490.700 (effective Feb. 13, 2020). It has been updated three times, most recently in August 2023.

In March of 2021, a DOC employee contacted the local news outlet KIRO anonymously, to report that a half dozen men had been transferred to WCCW. According to the report:

The concern among staff and inmates is a risk of sexual assault. The employee cites a recent incident in which an inmate from a male facility raped a female in the women’s prison upon arrival. The transferred inmate, according to the employee, is incarcerated for a sex offense and has “fully functional male genitalia, a history of violence and sexual depravity in the community, and has been found guilty of sexual assault against other inmates while housed in the men’s facilities.”

“He is a proven sexual predator, having committed multiple crimes against women, yet the State of Washington had no problem moving him into a women’s facility and housing him with the most vulnerable in our population (our mental health unit),” the employee wrote.

One of the male inmates being housed at WCCW was Donna (Douglas) Perry, who was convicted of murdering three prostituted women. Another was a man named Princess Zoee Marie Adromeda Love (Hobby Bingham), who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl. I believe (though I am not entirely sure) that there are currently 11 men being housed at WCCW. Reduxx has reported on several of them.

Mozzy Clark served time in the WCCW and has been released. She is calling out what Christopher Williams did to her in the facility, and the Department’s complicity. Williams is a man who calls himself a woman (i.e., “is transgender”). He has been convicted of a sex offense and Department officials placed him in a cell with her, knowing this.

On December 27, she filed a complaint in the District Court for the Western District of Washington against the Department of Corrections, four named individual correctional officers, and ten unnamed correctional officers.

According to the complaint and several news reports, Christopher Williams is a male convicted sex offender who was serving time in a state men’s prison. At some point, he declared that he is a woman. The Department transferred him to WCCW, and then placed him in a locked cell with Clark.

The complaint alleges:

• While at WCCW, and before being moved to Ms. Clark’s cell, Mr. Williams was known to the prison staff to have had previous incidents of a sexual nature with his prior female cellmate.

• Immediately after being moved into Ms. Clark’s cell, Mr. Williams began to sexually victimize Ms. Clark.

• Mr. Williams would frequently talk to Ms. Clark in a sexually explicit way, describing his proclivities and the graphic sexual things he wanted to do to Ms. Clark. He told Ms. Clark that he wanted to have sex with her and how he sold his body to other female inmates. When Ms. Clark would object, Mr. Williams dismissed her saying that all the other females in the prison “wanted” him.

• At night, Mr. Williams would take out various sex toys kept in his cell, and talk at length about how he wanted to use them on Ms. Clark.

• In their cell, Ms. Clark was on the bottom bunk. Mr. Williams, who is approximately 6’4”, would hover menacingly over Ms. Clark’s bunk with an erection while touching himself. He would also display his erection to Ms. Clark against her will, and gesture towards it, saying how much he wanted her.

• When Ms. Clark complained to Defendants, including officer Brooks, about this conduct, they failed to take any serious action. At first, Brooks laughed it off, saying Mr. Williams’ going rate for sex with female inmates was a “bag of chips.”

• After further complaints, Brooks stated he would inform Sgt. Williams about the conduct. However, Sgt. Williams said she could not do anything for fear of retaliation from inmate Williams.

• Defendants told Ms. Clark that if she complained it would be considered a hate crime and actively discouraged her from filing any complaints. In fact, Brooks told Ms. Clark that Williams had in the past violently retaliated against individuals who complained about him.

• Mr. Williams’ predatory behavior continued to escalate. The words and menacing conduct progressed to sexual assault. At night, Williams started fondling Ms. Clark in her sleep. He would put his hand under Ms. Clark’s blanket and touch her legs and her breasts. Some mornings, Ms. Clark would wake up with her shirt lifted above her breasts.

It concludes: “The injuries suffered by Ms. Clark, e.g., being the victim of the cruel and unusual punishment of sexual violence, that was inflicted upon her maliciously and sadistically without probable cause, were caused in part by the longstanding WCCW policy, practice and custom (with the full knowledge of, acquiescence in, approval of and ratification of Defendants). WCCW had and has a policy of ignoring and downplaying female prisoner complaints about being locked in a cage with biological males, as well as discouraging them from filing official complaints, and actively conspiring to, participating in, acquiescing in, ratifying and approving of these policies, practices, and customs.”

The complaint alleges violations of Clark’s First, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights, by means of state-created danger, deliberate indifference, and conspiracy.

I am wishing Mozzy Clark nothing but the best. The groups Sovereign Women Speak and Woman II Woman have been complaining about this dreadful situation for incarcerated women in Washington for years. The group Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) has filed an administrative complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting an investigation into this sex discrimination being perpetrated by the Washington state DOC.

Vulnerable women are being locked in cages with men, many of whom have been convicted of violent and/or sex offenses. This must stop.

Mozzy Clark, today’s FFS Friday is for you.

1. Please feel free to correct me if this is inaccurate.