TOMIEKIA JOHNSON REPORTS: Trans-identified male murderer Dana Rivers antagonizes female inmates in women’s Chowchilla prison

Incarcerated women clamor with objection from four corners of the housing unit dayroom, where folks gather to socialize, to avoid the agonizing task of chauffeuring Dana Rivers—formerly David Warfield—around the grounds of the Central California Women's facility where he is housed with a fretful female population.

This is thanks to Senate Bill 132, authored by perverter of law, San Francisco's state senator Scott Wiener. It allows men who have nefarious intentions for incarcerated women to self-identify as anything other than a man and to live with women. We women were never informed or asked if we were okay being housed with men far more dangerous than our worst abusers.

These SB132 men have murdered, kidnapped, forcibly orally copulated, beat, and raped women and men before. One man raped and killed men while housed in the men's prison. Now they are incarcerated with us.

California has made being at near constant risk of vile violation unavoidable in an already overcrowded women's prison.

Dana Rivers' crimes

Self-identified biker chick Rivers was convicted of murdering a lesbian married couple and their 19-year-old son, which was classified as a hate crime against women.

Now he wants women to make his life behind bars easy for him. Still on the knife's edge after shooting his "friend" Charlotte Reed twice, then stabbing her 44 times, Rivers wants to kick his feet up and have women wait on him.

Rivers also shot and stabbed Reed's wife Patricia White to death, and shot their son Benny to death, in his back, as he tried to escape the slice and dicer. 37 of the 44 stab wounds inflicted upon Reed obliterated her face until she was unrecognizable.

Judge Scott Patton said that River's killings were "the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years," reported Susannah Luthi at the Washington Free Beacon.

Some say Judge Patton "purposely fumbled over whether Rivers was going to be housed at San Quentin men's prison or a women's prison," Amie Ichikawa, Project Director of Woman ii Woman told me during a 15 minute GTL prison phone conversation about the emotional ordeal.

"I told these people he is going to CCWf!"

After the 42-fake, monster Rivers, whose demonic butchery starkly resembles the stabbings of Bryan Koehberger, who is alleged to have stabbed four Idaho college students in one fell sweep, “was passed to CCWF.”

"The judicial system is well aware of the challenges Rivers presents to female inmates and custody staff," said Jennifer Barboa, who was housed in the Santa Rita jail with Rivers for three years.

Barboa said she saw firsthand: Rivers in a "red jumpsuit, shackled and escorted with at least five deputies everywhere he went. They put very dangerous people in red—it's the highest security level."

When Rivers first arrived to Barboa's pod, deputies shooed her away, demanding she quickly return to her cell. Barboa was a porter who served meals to jailed women in the pod.

"Rivers came in walking like a man trying to intimidate people," Barboa said. "He ended up in Administrative Segregation for fighting the cops and the women inmates."

Barboa asked a question that has many incarcerated women and staff bemused, "why is it men like Rivers are allowed to live in a women's prison that are categorized as level I, II, III, IV, and he is a level IV? They wouldn't house him in a level I, II, or III men's prison, so why does he get to be housed with level I women?"

When I asked a free-world staff why CDCr is so comfortable placing women at life threatening risk with men like Rivers, he sharply retorted asking a bigger question, "why didn't he get the death penalty?"

What it's like for the women now living with Rivers

Our housing units have exercise equipment that was acquired during lock downs over the last three years. It was evening dayroom, and I was on the elliptical when Rivers rolled his prop wheelchair up—he parked adjacently.

I turned quickly to hop off, nearly twisting my ankle. I bit my tongue and kept moving, relieved my athletic agility saved me from injury.

Rivers has rolled in front of me while jogging the facility yard a few times. Once I hit a certain apex he pretended he needed to use the port-a-potty, water cooler, access the clinic, or grab shade from the bushes he sat between, waiting to roll out in my path.

"They can't break your spirit so now they want to break your body," said Woman ii Woman's Amie Ichikawa.

Another bright afternoon, women were working in the dayroom when one of the workers could be heard complaining about Rivers. Women were repulsed, describing how Rivers used the dayroom bathroom and left a trail of feces from the bathroom to the microwave.

With feces on his hands, he removed a woman's food from the microwave.

Women were so upset that one peer found it necessary to tell me her elderly friend was at her appointment in the clinic when the nurse uncharacteristically made an announcement, "everyone needs to reschedule your appointments due to a difficult patient taking up a lot of time and didn't have an appointment."

The waiting women were so irritated they waited an hour to see who the "difficult" inmate was. Out rolls Rivers to no one's surprise.

Two women described the day Rivers had "a fake heart attack in the chowhall. We were locked in the hot kitchen while the whole yard was down and everyone was on the ground for an hour," one of the women recalled.