Prison

Under Biden, ICE policy now calls for releasing pregnant people and families detained together. House members and advocates want that same consideration for trans people and people living with HIV.

It was initially thought that the 18-year old opened fire on a house party out of hatred. Jurors eventually learned that his motive was more than that.

The other guy was negative.

She won an important court victory just months after the Trump administration rescinded protections for transgender inmates.

Inmates were held in their cells up to 23 hours a day without access to specialized programming, social interaction or other outside activities.

The state recognizes the rights of transgender inmates with “the most protective” law in the country.

Police officers don’t normally condone violent crime, but gay rape is an exception apparently.

She is willing to die to escape the “nightmare” of being housed in a male prison.

She says that it’s not just other prisoners – guards have also groped her.

Researchers found that sexual minority women account for an “overwhelming” 42.1 percent of women in prison and 35.7 percent of women in jails.

Michelle-Lael Norsworthy won the legal right for California inmates to receive transition-related surgery, but she was paroled before her own surgery could be scheduled.

Quine’s case led the state to become the first to set standards for transgender inmates to apply to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery.

“I still can’t grasp the fact of just being free, finally, after all this time.”

Transgender soldier Chelsea Manning has served over six years of a 35-year sentence for leaking classified documents and has twice attempted suicide while in military custody.

Thompson was released from prison in Oregon in June after serving time for robbery, a crime also motivated by a desire to return to prison.

“Essentially she is now being tortured as punishment for an act of desperation.”

The ACLU said if Manning is convicted of the offenses, she could be placed in indefinite solitary confinement.

“I don’t want different treatment. I just want the same treatment and facilities as every other employee.”

Nevada inmates with HIV were housed “alike” or alone and their status was shared indiscriminately, putting them at increased risk of harm.

A policy at the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex prohibits prisoners from receiving items that “promote homosexuality.”