EXCLUSIVE: Trans-Identified Male Who Strangled His Mother to Death Serving Sentence in Women's Prison with Mother-Baby Unit

EXCLUSIVE: Trans-Identified Male Who Strangled His Mother to Death Serving Sentence in Women's Prison with Mother-Baby Unit

A trans-identified male serving a 22-year sentence for the violent murder of his own mother was quietly transferred into a minimum-security Illinois women’s prison with a mother-baby unit. John Wesley Finnegan began calling himself “Hannah Dagny” in 2014, approximately five years into his prison term, and was transferred to Decatur Correctional Center within the past five years. Finnegan pleaded guilty but mentally ill to strangling his mother i…