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.
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
Corrections is an ever-changing industry, and those changes are most obvious when we look at legal trends
Would cost taxpayers $2.6M yearly
Supporters say she remains in isolation to the detriment of her mental health
Massachusetts prison officials on Thursday made another push to overturn a court ruling that would force them to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation to a murder convict with gender-identity disorder
Michelle Kosilek, then known as Robert Kosilek, was convicted of killing spouse Cheryl Kosilek in 1990
Inmate Whitney Lee had undergone continuous hormone therapy since 1999 until the correction department abruptly halted the treatments in 2012
A hearing is continuing into a second day over a lawsuit by a transgender prisoninmate who wants a judge to order Ohio authorities to allow her hormone treatments to continue permanently
A transgender prison inmate in Ohio wants a federal judge to order the state to allow her hormone treatments to continue, saying she suffered a medical setback including facial hair growth and depression when the treatments stopped
Advocates and officials with the Department of Children and Families are starting to talk privately about getting the 16-year-old out of prison and crafting a suitable treatment program
The state Department of Correction said it will request a hearing by the full 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Michelle Kosilek
Harris County Jail in Houston is one of many nationwide implementing changes to the way it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population
Judge: Receiving medically necessary treatment is a constitutional right that must be protected “even if that treatment strikes some as odd or unorthodox”
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- Judge says transgender Ill. inmate should be able to attend support group
- Transgender inmate sues Ga. prison over haircut
- Judge orders training on transgender issues for all Ill. prison staff
- NC transgender inmate is moved, but not to a women’s prison
- NC transgender inmate denied move to women’s prison