Incarcerated transgender adults and juveniles experience violence and sexual abuse at the hands of inmates and staff, despite constitutional protections. This experience is shared by all transgender ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. “For years, officials have used ‘because PREA’ as ...

A federal judge last week agreed an incarcerated man could sue a prison guard for allegedly putting him in danger and retaliating against him by revealing to other inmates that the plaintiff filed a ...

The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. The Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo on ...

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