Transgender Inmates
Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”
After an assault, Maryland corrections officials placed Chelsea Gilliam in solitary confinement for months, according to the lawsuit
Officials: Revision “would do nothing to redirect other agency arrestees, failing to ensure officers take arrestees to a facility that aligns with their gender identity”
A judge ruled an inmate can sue the state prison system over the end of her hormone therapy treatments
This is the first time a federal appeals court has affirmed a ruling ordering a state to provide gender-confirmation surgery to a transgender inmate
Unions argue the prison system doesn’t have clear policies for how staff should supervise transgender inmates
Vanessa Lynn Gibson asserted that sexual reassignment surgery is essential medical care and denying the surgery violates the Eighth Amendment
The inmate has been housed in a men’s facility for the last 17 months
Idaho is at the center of a national case over whether denying prison inmates gender reassignment surgery violates the U.S. Constitution
The state will appeal the decision
Deon “Strawberry” Hampton was battling the Illinois Department of Corrections over alleged abuse while she was incarcerated
ICE is considering opening a second permanent facility where transgender migrants can be detained amid the influx of Central Americans crossing the border
The decision for the inmate is believed to be a first in Oregon at a men’s prison
The inmate is believed to be the state’s only post-operative transgender prisoner
Officials argued that the inmate suing for gender confirmation surgery is too mentally unstable for the procedure
The inmate’s lawyers say she’s being penalized for reporting the abuse and harassment she’s suffered in prison
The inmate alleges they are denying her transitional care and housing her in a prison for men
The woman was moved to a different men’s prison where she’s confined to a single cell
The inmate’s lawyers have filed a lawsuit asking she be moved from a men’s prison to end alleged sexual assault and harassment
The woman is serving time at a men’s prison despite her repeated requests to transfer to at women’s prison
Just before Christmas, the 27-year-old transgender inmate was granted a rare transfer to a women’s prison in alignment with her gender identity
Deon “Strawberry” Hampton requested the transfer on grounds she’d be less vulnerable to the sexual assault, taunting and beatings she was subjected to in male prisons
Assaults on correctional officers, inmate mental healthcare and the impact of new technologies dominated the headlines this year
The judge reserved judgment on the inmate’s other requests, including that she be moved to a women’s prison
The court gave the state Department of Corrections 14 days to report back with a training plan, which agency officials say is “underway”
A transgender inmate claims in a lawsuit she was handcuffed and forced to endure a haircut that left her bleeding
Deon “Strawberry” Hampton has sued the DOC multiple times and has been transferred to four different facilities in the last year
A court said prison officials aren’t deliberately indifferent to a transgender inmate who says her medical treatment is so poor it violates her constitutional rights
The law is being lauded by civil rights advocates as groundbreaking
A Christian organization is suing to expel all trans women from female prisons
Transgender women will now be housed in female prisons only “in rare cases,” the Trump administration announced in a major reversal of federal policy
Jennifer Ann Jasmaine said a North Carolina prison is blocking her from practicing witchcraft
Inmates in New York City’s jail system will be housed with fellow inmates of the gender they identify with
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