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.
Corrections is an ever-changing industry, and those changes are most obvious when we look at legal trends
The deal with a disability rights group, if approved by a judge, requires state prisons to have mental health and medical staff who specialize in gender-affirming care
Broome County Sheriff says the agreement establishes “clear LGBTI Guidelines, which were previously nonexistent”
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
A transgender woman said Louisiana COs ordered her to remove her underwear and told her she would have to reveal her genitalia before she could leave the facility
A transgender inmate who authorities agreed to move from one male prison after her claims of abuse says the mistreatment has continued at her new location
Massachusetts corrections officials say a transgender inmate should remain at a men’s prison because transfer to a women’s prison may cause problems
The ruling came in a lawsuit challenging the system’s policy barring the treatment for inmates who weren’t receiving hormone therapy before they were incarcerated
According to the complaint, the department “systematically fails to provide necessary medical treatment” such as hormone therapy for gender dysphoria
The agreement doesn’t include a decision on whether Deon “Strawberry” Hampton will become Illinois’s first transgender women to transfer from a male to female prison
Deon “Strawberry” Hampton wants to go to a female prison where she says she’ll be less vulnerable to abuse
Officials are negotiating a settlement that could result in major changes to the way transgender inmates are treated
Manning served nearly seven years of her 35-year sentence, before Obama granted her clemency in the final days of his presidency
Sen. Toni Atkins said the bill would let state and county inmates apply for the legal changes without first getting approval from several state correctional officials
Officials say the first U.S. inmate to receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery has been moved to a women’s prison
Linda Patricia Thompson, who robbed a bank to go back to prison, says the system helps her survive because homeless shelters are full
Facilities have adjusted how they process, book and house transgender inmates
California prison officials are setting the first standards for which transgender inmates should receive state-funded sex-reassignment surgery
Transgender inmates are more and more at the forefront of correctional issues in the U.S.; how should corrections respond? First, by gaining an understanding of the population
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A transgender inmate who says she was called “it” and “some kind of animal” by officers who watched her shower has won a legal victory
Advocates say Ashley Diamond, 37, won an important victory when the state in April overhauled its policy for treating inmates like her
The DOC said it does not currently segregate inmates according to sexual orientation or gender identity
New policy will allow pre-operation transgender inmates to move permanently into new populations
Records show Ashley Diamond was released Monday after serving about a third of her 12-year sentence for burglary and other convictions
Connor MacCalister, who was born female but has identified as a man for more than 10 years, is held in the jail’s women’s unit as he awaits court action in the killing of Wendy Boudreau
Suit alleges the officer bribed the inmate with an iPod Touch and $20 in cash to not report the assault
California is first in the nation to agree to pay for a transgender inmate’s sex reassignment operation
The decision makes it less likely that the 51-year-old will be able to have surgery funded by the prison before she is released
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