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 ACLU is only challenging the ban on gender-affirming medication, not the portion of the law that outlaws department funding of gender-reassignment surgeries
The ruling halts an executive order from President Donald Trump that led to treatment disruptions for hundreds of transgender inmates
The Justice Department said states are not constitutionally obligated to provide gender-affirming surgeries to prisoners
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
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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