Reduxx has learned that a man convicted of murder was transferred into New Jersey’s female-only prison after being mentored by a transgender convict accused of impregnating two female inmates. Jamie Belladonna, who is serving a 40-year sentence for beating a woman to death, worked with Demi Minor to secure his transfer to the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for women (EMCF).
Minor, 29, came to widespread notoriety in 2022 after it was revealed that he had been responsible for two pregnancies after being moved to EMCF while serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of his foster father. He had been transferred into EMCF in 2020, one year in advance of a change in prison policy sparked by a state Department of Corrections (DOC) settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The litigation, initiated on behalf of a convicted terrorist and diaper fetishist, resulted in the New Jersey DOC adopting prison placement policies on the basis of a self-declared gender identity.
On April 13, 2022, NJ Advance Media reported that the DOC’s external affairs executive director had confirmed that two women at EMCF had become pregnant after having “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person,” later revealed to be Minor.
The news generated significant controversy, with multiple mainstream media outlets internationally covering the situation. As reports of the two pregnancies at EMCF generated concern and criticism, NJ.com interviewed Minor about the ordeal at the beginning of 2023, while describing him as a “woman” who had “had consensual sex with two other women imprisoned at the facility”.
“I do not think I am a threat to my fellow inmates, because I never harmed anyone. I chose to love,” Minor told the outlet.
When asked whether he believed the response to the sexual activity and pregnancies would have been similar if “all involved were cisgender,” Minor claimed to be the victim of discrimination. “The response would not have been the same if it involved all cisgender parties,” Minor stated, while glossing over the fact that women cannot impregnate each other.
“This response has happened solely because I am a woman who is transgender, and because of this, they view me as a man,” he added. “They have engaged in sex stereotyping, by assuming that I am a threat to the women who I had consensual relationships with. This discriminatory logic assumes that I am dangerous simply because of my gender identity.”
However, when Minor was first transferred into the women’s prison in August 2020, he boasted that “the conditions are so much better” than in the men’s correctional facility. “I have a better tie with the officers here than I have had in my entire 10 years of being incarcerated,” Minor shared in a post to Facebook.
In 2022 Reduxx spoke with Kokila Hiatt, a female inmate currently incarcerated at EMCF and who shared a wing with Minor. Hiatt told Reduxx that Minor struck her as opportunistic, using whatever claims he could to get what he wanted from the state’s Department of Corrections.
“He seems to jump onto whatever will get him what he wants. First it was the transgender [issue], to come to EMCF. Now it seems to be youth incarceration since he’s in a facility typically used to house youthful and young offenders,” Hiatt said.
Minor had previously operated a website called Justice4Demetrius.org. A LinkedIn account attributed to ‘Demi’ Minor describes him as an “entrepreneur” and “criminal justice advocate,” and cites him as the founder of “a grassroots organization advocating for criminal justice reform” called The Minor Society.
Hiatt also revealed that he had been trying to have sex with the female inmates from “the moment he was transferred in.”
In response to the public outrage over the pregnancies at EMCF, Minor was removed from EMCF in June of 2022, and was ultimately placed at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility (GSYCF) – a facility for inmates aged 18 to 30 years of age.
According to Minor, he is “the only woman in the jail that has make-up,” and he has been approached by “numerous sex offenders” who asked him how they could “get to Edna Mahan Correctional Facility.”
While housed at GSYCF, Minor launched a website and social media profiles called Justice 4 Demi, which he uses to promote himself as a victim of “transphobia” while demanding to be once again relocated to a female prison.
He has also presented himself as a persecuted “mother” who is being denied visitation rights to the child he says he “conceived.”
Social media posts made by Justice 4 Demi and seen by Reduxx show that after Minor was transferred out of EMCF, he collaborated with another male inmate and instructed him on how to secure a transfer to the women’s facility.
Last week, Reduxx revealed that a man serving a 40-year sentence for convictions that include beating a woman to death with a hammer had quietly been transferred into EMCF. Elliot Rivera Jr., 35, now calls himself Jamie Belladonna and is classified as a “female” within the state Department of Corrections (DOC) system. Rivera was previously housed in the same unit at GSYCF as Minor.
In fact, a video posted to Minor’s social media shows Rivera claiming that his hair grew back after receiving “medication” from a “transgender doctor” he names as Dr. Diana Finkel. Confusingly, on Minor’s Justice 4 Demi account, the video is captioned: “NJ State Prison is denying our sister Jamie visits with gender specialist doctors!”
In another video, Rivera holds up his white sneakers which are dotted with what appears to be blood. “They’re making me walk around in blood-covered sneakers that happened when I mutilated my genitals,” Rivera claims. Minor’s social media post reads, “Jamie’s sneakers are covered in blood and she is in crisis!”
Just like Rivera, Minor had also claimed to have mutilated his genitals by attempting to amputate his testicles with a razor, though the only evidence of this occurrence is a blog post he authored himself. “I started cutting again, and with a razor I begin making a incision to remove my testicle. In my head, I just wanted the pain to stop,” Minor wrote.
However, in a blog post by Minor dated April 24, 2022, he asserts that he does not believe that it is necessary to undergo surgery in order to self-identify as transgender.
“In fact [whether] some one does or does not choose to remove their penis does not define their gender… I realized that I needed to focus on doing things that make me happy,” he wrote.
In February 2023, Minor said that he had provided information to Rivera “about the transition process.”
“Another trans woman housed at Garden State Youth Correctional Facility has attempted to castrate herself. This marks the third woman including Demi to attempt to mutilate her genitals in the past year!,” the Justice 4 Demi account, created by Minor, posted to X.
“This woman knew very little about transitioning beyond that she needed hormones and wanted surgery. Demi showed this woman the information we had provided her about the transition process (DOC has basically never provided her any medical information about transition),” the post continued.
“Demi was able to tell this woman that her hormone levels were way too high. DOC has been pretty consistently incompetent when it comes to hormone dosage. She also told her about the mechanics of the surgery as well as how to request one. Equipped with this knowledge, this woman attempted to begin the process to request a surgery. This requires, among other things, diagnosis of gender dysphoria by two medical professionals and a letter from a mental health professional testifying to their soundness of mind.”
There have been multiple cases documented by Reduxx of male inmates informing fellow convicts on how to “transition” and demand a transfer to a women’s prison.
In one case, a trans-identified male who raped two 9-year-old girls before torturing and murdering his developmentally disabled cellmate was discovered to have been “offering” his “expertise” to policymakers on the issue of transgender inmate rights. While incarcerated, Patricia Elaine Trimble started taking female hormones and immediately began teaching other inmates about “gender dysphoria”. That mentoring, which has included helping other trans-identified males gain access to benefits after declaring a transgender identity, had allegedly earned Trimble the nickname “Mother.”
In a particularly disturbing example, a convicted serial killer currently incarcerated in the women’s ward at Rikers Island had targeted women, dismembered their bodies, and joked about eating their flesh. Harvey Marcelin, who calls himself Marceline Harvey, has said he did not claim a female identity until he met a transgender inmate at the Auburn state prison in 1993. Harvey claims to be a transgender lesbian and gained access to his third victim as a direct result of gender identity policies at a women’s homeless shelter.
More recently, a man convicted of beating an infant to death revealed that while in prison serving a 55 year sentence for the murder of the child, he had been informed about gender identity by another male inmate who went by the name of “Pearl.”
It was at that time that Jonathan C. Richardson, who calls himself Autumn Cordellioné after a former girlfriend, began to claim to be transgender. Last month the United States District Court of Indiana ruled that denying him “gender-affirming” plastic surgeries constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment.”
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