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A state appeals panel has sided with the state Department of Corrections in rejecting a transgender woman's bid to transfer to a women's prison from an all-gender facility where she was civilly committed for sex offender treatment.

. . . .S.G. pled guilty in 2011 to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl in December 2010 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, Megan�s Law registration, and parole supervision for life, according to the ruling. She served her time at the Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, the state�s prison for male sex offenders that�s also in Avenel, and was civilly committed by the court in 2019 under the state Sexually Violent Predator Act, the ruling says.