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Publication • December 2, 2025
Department of Justice-National PREA Standards Alignment With Executive Order, 2025 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Washington , D.C. 20531 MEMORANDUM TO: All DOJ-certified PREA Auditors FROM: Tammie M. Gregg Principal Deputy Director Bureau of Justice Assistance SUBJECT: National PREA Standards Alignment with Executive …
Multiple Prisoner Suits Accuse Guards of Violence at Virginia BOP Lockup by Chuck Sharman A group of cases pending in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia paint a picture of senseless violence and petty retaliation by officials with the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) at the …
BOP Jettisons Transgender Offender Manual by In a memo dated February 25, 2025, acting federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Director William Lothrop canceled the agency’s Transgender Offender Manual and ordered its removal from federal prison libraries and the BOP intranet. The move is the latest attempt to comply with an …
Florida to Trans Prisoners: We’re Coming for Your Bras by The Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) incarcerates more people—nearly 87,000—than all but two other states. Yet only 100 of them have been identified as transgender and provided hormone therapy. So it was unclear what motivated the announcement of a major …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Missouri Guards in Transgender Prisoner’s Suit Alleging Retaliation and Unreasonable Search by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to defendant Missouri Department of Corrections …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
DOJ Sues Utah DOC, Alleging Discrimination Against Transgender Prisoner by On April 2, 2024, the U.S. Dept. of Justice sued the Utah Department of Corrections (DOC) for allegedly violating the rights of a transgender prisoner under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. ch. 126 §12101 et seq. The …
Settlement Obligates Washington DOC to Provide Gender-Affirming Care to Trans Prisoners by On October 10, 2023, a settlement was reached in a suit filed by Disability Rights Washington (DRW), a federally funded agency that advocates for the rights of people with disabilities, accusing the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) of …
Article • June 1, 2024 • from PLN June, 2024
Trans Detainee Sues Over Housing With Men on Rikers Island by Transgender Rikers Island jail detainee Dylan “Ali” Miles sued the City of New York and its Department of Correction on August 24, 2023, alleging her civil rights were violated when she was housed with men for two months before …
Connecticut DOC Held Liable for Failure to Treat Transgender Prisoner’s Gender Dysphoria by Douglas Ankney Douglas Ankney On September 15, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut granted a transexual prisoner’s motion for summary judgment in a suit accusing the state Department of Correction (DOC) of violating …
Brief • December 4, 2023
Gilliam v. Dept of Public Safety and Correctional Services, MD, Order Granting and Denying Part Prelim Injunction, Transgender, 2023 Case 1:23-cv-01047-MJM Document 75 Filed 12/04/23 Page 1 of 2 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND CHELSEA GILLIAM, et al., * Plaintiffs * v. Civil Action …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Seventh Circuit Sides With Muslim Prisoner, Bars Strip Search by Transgender Wisconsin Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 16, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that forcing a Muslim prisoner “to submit to cross-sex strip searches” by a transgender Wisconsin guard …
11th Circuit Tells Sexually Assaulted Transgender Georgia Prisoner: PREA Violations Aren’t Per Se Eighth Amendment Violations by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On February 2, 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to issue a writ of certiorari to hear her appeal, a transgender Georgia prisoner was thwarted in her …
Transgender Women in Illinois DOC Secure Injunction with Special Monitor by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Transgender women imprisoned in the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) notched another victory in their legal battle for gender dysphoria treatment on December 13, 2021, when the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
Colorado Supreme Court Holds Governor Is Appropriate Defendant in Cases Involving State Constitutional Responsibility by The Colorado Supreme Court has decided “that the Governor is an appropriate defendant in cases involving ‘his constitutional responsibility to uphold laws of the state and to oversee Colorado’s executive agencies.’” The Court’s February 1, …
Washington Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Release of Transgender Prisoners’ Personal Information; Class Certified by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins On April 8, 2021, the Federal court for the Eastern District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) to preserve the status quo and halt the release by …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
$170,000 Settlement and New Policy on Gender Identity from Lawsuit Against New Jersey DOC by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The New Jersey Department of Corrections had a policy of housing prisoners according to their gender assignment at birth, regardless of whether they are transgender or of any non-binary sexual …
Monroe v. Meeks, IL, Preliminary Injunction, Transgender Discrimination, 2021 Case 3:18-cv-00156-NJR Document 332 Filed 08/09/21 Page 1 of 4 Page ID #7682 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS JANIAH MONROE, MARILYN MELENDEZ, LYDIA HELÉNA VISION, SORA KUYKENDALL, and SASHA REED, individually and on behalf …
Doe v. NJ Dept of Corrections, NJ, Settlement, Transgender Discrimination, 2021 MER-L-001586-19 06/29/2021 1:06:04 AM Pg 1 of 25 Trans ID: LCV20211544598 SONIA DOE (a pseudonym), SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY LAW DIVISION - MERCER COUNTY Plaintiff, Docket No. MER-L-1586-19 v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al. Defendants. CIVIL …
Diamond v. Ward, GA, Statement of Interest of the US, Transgender Medical Rights, 2021 Case 5:20-cv-00453-MTT Document 65 Filed 04/22/21 Page 1 of 18 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA MACON DIVISION __________________________________ ASHLEY DIAMOND, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 5:20-cv-00453-MTT TIMOTHY WARD, et al., …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
California Enacts Legislation Strengthening Protections for LGBTQ Prisoners by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 26, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law measures to protect the state’s LGBTQ population, including special provisions that empower them to choose the pronoun and honorific that prison staff, volunteers, and contractors …
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