Transgender Inmates
The Transgender Inmates section addresses the unique challenges and considerations involved in managing transgender individuals within the correctional system. This directory offers articles and resources on policies, healthcare, housing, and rights specific to transgender inmates. Understanding these issues is essential for ensuring the safety, dignity, and fair treatment of transgender individuals in custody. For more on inmate rights and management, explore our section on Inmate Healthcare and Rights.
The Kentucky DOC requested the opinion from the state’s attorney general as the agency amends its administrative regulations regarding medical care for inmates
From body cameras to healthcare access, the new year will bring key policy shifts to improve corrections operations
The 55-year-old prisoner, suing as Jane Doe, claims the Georgia Department of Corrections has a ban on providing gender-affirming surgery to transgender inmates
The lawsuit alleges multiple MDOC staff members ignored the inmate’s pleas for help, accused her of lying, and mocked and laughed at her
Ashley Diamond said officials have failed to protect her from repeated sexual assaults behind bars and failed to provide her with adequate medical treatment
The law applies only if the state does not have “management or security concerns”
More states have moved transgender women to women’s prisons on a case-by-case basis
In addition to the risk of depression and suicide, transgender people experience sexual violence, harassment and other adverse conditions at higher rates than the general population
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
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- Colo. county jail segregates transgender inmate
- Lawsuit: Transgender inmate harassed in Baltimore men’s jail
- DOC: 2 women at N.J. prison pregnant after consensual sex between inmates
- NJ reverses decision to house transgender woman in men’s prison
- NC detention officer charged with multiple sex crimes for assaulting transgender inmate