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Health and WellnessHIV+ inmate got a year in solitary because officials feared he would have prison sex
The other guy was negative.
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News (USA)Trans woman wins major legal victory after she was a ‘sex slave’ in prison
She won an important court victory just months after the Trump administration rescinded protections for transgender inmates.
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News (USA)LGBTQ prisoners held in ‘alternative lifestyle isolation tanks’ win million dollar lawsuit
Inmates were held in their cells up to 23 hours a day without access to specialized programming, social interaction or other outside activities.
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News (USA)Connecticut is now the first state to house transgender people based on their gender
The state recognizes the rights of transgender inmates with “the most protective” law in the country.
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News (USA)Kentucky state police tweeted a rape joke during the Superbowl
Police officers don’t normally condone violent crime, but gay rape is an exception apparently.
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News (World)A trans prisoner is on hunger strike until the government recognizes her gender
She is willing to die to escape the “nightmare” of being housed in a male prison.
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News (USA)This trans woman said that she has been assaulted in a male prison. So she’s suing.
She says that it’s not just other prisoners – guards have also groped her.
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News (USA)Study: Sexual minorities more likely to be incarcerated, assaulted behind bars
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.
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News (USA)Transgender parolee gets surgery years after winning, then losing, the right
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.
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News (USA)California first in nation to fund inmate’s gender confirmation surgery
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.
