When that prison gate slams shut and echoes down the hall you no longer have rights.
Many, many prisons do not follow the law. Here in Connecticut the gender inclusive non-discrimination law is ignored; trans women are routinely placed in male prisons.
Prisons operate in their own world when you enter prison property you surrender all you rights including visitors.
She is going to have a very hard time to prove that it was done because of bias.
Today I will be up at the True Color conference at UConn’s main campus in Storrs. It is the largest LGBT conference in the world with over 3800 attendees over the two days. I am giving a workshop on Trans history.
Many, many prisons do not follow the law. Here in Connecticut the gender inclusive non-discrimination law is ignored; trans women are routinely placed in male prisons.
After transgender inmate was raped, beaten, Texas agrees to clarify LGBT prisoner policiesFederal courts have ruled many times, but the states ignore their rulings that confining trans prisoners in solitary confinement is cruel and unusual punishment when trans inmates having done anything to justify the confinement.
Dallas Morning News
By Lauren McGaughy, Texas Government Reporter
March 15, 2018
AUSTIN — Texas will clarify its policies regarding the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender inmates as the result of a settlement with a former prisoner.
Passion Star, a transgender woman housed in men's prisons, filed a civil rights complaint in 2014 alleging she was repeatedly brutalized during her time behind bars. Star said she asked to be housed separately for a decade before Texas prison officials put her in safekeeping.
The state of Texas and Star recently reached a settlement that was "agreeable to all parties," the LGBT law group Lambda Legal announced Wednesday.
"For years, I was raped and beaten in prison and when I asked for help I was ignored," said Star, who was released last year. "I was hurt, scared and thrown in solitary in hopes that I would be forgotten, but today I can be proud that I never gave up."
Prisons operate in their own world when you enter prison property you surrender all you rights including visitors.
Lawsuit: Prison guards ordered transgender visitor to stripWhen I went to do training at a maximum security prison there was a BIG sign that said everything and everyone was subject to searches.
Chicargo Sun Times
By AP
BATON ROUGE, La. — A transgender woman who tried to visit her incarcerated brother claims Louisiana prison officers ordered her to remove her underwear and told her she would have to reveal her genitalia before she could leave the facility.
China Nelson, a 48-year-old New Orleans resident, said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that officers at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola insisted on searching her vehicle after she refused to take off her pants and underwear.
Nelson, who sued under her given name Donald, filed the federal suit against the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections. It accuses several unnamed prison guards of violating her Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures.
[…]
Nelson’s suit says guards stopped her from entering the maximum-security prison last September after a body screening machine detected an “unknown object” in her pants.
“When an unknown guard stated that she saw ‘something’ in Ms. Nelson’s pants, Ms. Nelson acknowledged that she was born a male as indicated on her driver’s license in an effort to explain the ‘something’ the guard stated she saw,” the suit says.
She is going to have a very hard time to prove that it was done because of bias.
Today I will be up at the True Color conference at UConn’s main campus in Storrs. It is the largest LGBT conference in the world with over 3800 attendees over the two days. I am giving a workshop on Trans history.
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