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Article • March 10, 2017 • from PLN March, 2017
Federal Transgender Prisoner Allowed to Wear Feminine Clothing at Video Trial by When Jeremy (Grace) Pinson was struck in the head by a white supremacist while imprisoned at FCI Terre Haute, she suffered a traumatic brain injury and was left partially blind. Retaliatory attacks followed that forced a lockdown of …
Three Reports Provide Data on Prisoners Held in “Restrictive Housing” by Derek Gilna An October 15, 2015 report by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), covering the time period from 2011-12 – the most recent period for which statistics are available – indicated that on an …
Seventh Circuit Tells Wisconsin Probationer with Gender Dysphoria how to Proceed by Matthew Clarke On December 23, 2015, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the appeal of a Wisconsin probationer with gender dysphoria who was denied a preliminary injunction to allow her to move from a men’s homeless shelter …
Suit Over Guards Beating Transgender New York Prisoner Settles for $80,000 by On February 23, 2015, a lawsuit alleging two New York prison guards beat a transgender state prisoner while voicing anti-transgender slurs was settled for $80,000, which included $50,000 in attorney fees. Bryan Woodall was a pre-operative transgender New …
Sacramento County Pays $58K to Settle Rape Suit Brought by Transgender Detainee by In June 2006, Jackie Tates was paid $58,333.34 by Sacramento County to settle a federal suit filed by Tates, a pre-operative (male-to-female) transgender inmate, alleging that in November 2000, while housed at the Sacramento County Main Jail …
Transfer to Women’s Prison Settles Formerly Male Prisoner’s GID Suit by Mark Wilson On October 31, 2013, Oregon prison officials agreed to transfer a formerly male prisoner to a women’s prison to settle her lawsuit. Linda Patricia Thompson suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID), or transsexualism, which is “a rare …
Gender Outlaws: Transgender Prisoners Face Discrimination, Harassment and Abuse by by Emily Alpert, Oakland, California In Idaho, prisoner Linda Patricia Thompson wanted a transfer to a women's prison. A male-to-female transgender woman, or MTF, she had been living as a woman for several years, had changed her name legally, and …
Franklin v. Hardy, IL, Settlement, Transgender Medical Rights, 2016 ta UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JOSE FRANKLIN, a/k/a MONICA FRANKLIN, Plaintiff, Case Number 2012 CV 02970 v. Hon. John Robert Blakey, District Judge DIANE SCHWARZ and SYLVIA MAHONE, Hon. Mary M. Rowland, Magistrate Judge Defendants. …
BOP Pays $70,000 to Settle Lawsuit by Sexually Abused Transgender Prisoner by Derek Gilna Samantha Hill, a male-to-female transgender prisoner in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), was raped at USP Florence in December 2013 – one of many sexual assaults the BOP failed to prevent through …
Naber v. Jones et al, FL, 2nd Amended Complaint, transgender denial of name change medical treatment, 2016 Case 2:15-cv-14427-RLR Document 20 Entered on FLSD Docket 03/31/2016 Page 1 of 24 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA Case No. 2:15-cv-14427-RLR Justin Lee Naber, also known as Stacy Lorraine Naber, …
Hammond v Kates, DC, Amicus Brief - HRDC, transgender abuse discrimination, 2014 USCA Case #13-5212 Document #1485371 Filed: 03/25/2014 Page 1 of 50 [ORAL ARGUMENT NOT YET SCHEDULED] ______________________________ Nos. 13-5212 & 13-5213 ______________________________ IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT ______________________________ PATTI HAMMOND …
Indiana Court of Appeals: Standard of Medical Care Same In and Out of Prison by Matthew T. Clarke In an opinion dated November 10, 2014, the Court of Appeals of Indiana overturned a trial court's holding that a lower standard of medical care applied to prisoners and reversed that court's …
Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center has Highest Prison Rape Rate by Oklahoma state prison officials refused to testify at a federal hearing held on January 8, 2014. Among the items on the agenda at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) hearing was an inquiry as to why Oklahoma’s Mabel Basset …
Unjust - How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People, CAP MAP AP FT JLUSA, 2016 UNJUST: HOW THE BROKEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FAILS LGBT PEOPLE February 2016 Authors Partners This report was authored by: This report was developed in partnership with: Center for American Progress The Center for …
Jury Awards $40,000 to Transgender Prisoner Raped at Florida Jail by A Florida state court jury awarded $40,000 in a negligence action stemming from the rape of a male-to-female transgender pretrial detainee at the Orange County Jail (OCJ). Donald Brown, also known as Tori Tyrelle, was being held at OCJ …
Sentenced to Abuse: Trans People in Prison Suffer Rape, Coercion, Denial of Medical Treatment by Zoe Greenberg Zoe Greenberg, Investigative Fellow, RH Reality Check In 2009, Janetta Johnson was sentenced to 71 months for possession and intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the economy plummeted in 2008, Johnson says she panicked …
Tate v. Wexford Health, IL, Order, Transgender Medical Rights, 2016 Case 3:16-cv-00092-NJR-DGW Document 14 Filed 02/19/16 Page 1 of 12 Page ID #71 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS CARL TATE, Plaintiff, vs. WEXFORD HEALTH SOURCE INC., LOUIS SIDCKER, MELVIN HINTON, JOHN BALDWIN, DOUGLAS, …
Publication • February 8, 2016
Guide to Criminalization of Trans & Gender Non-Conforming People Transformative Justice Law Proj. of IL Quick Guide to the Criminalization of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People Transgender and gender non-conforming people are over-represented in the criminal legal system due to institutionalized oppression and increased poverty and criminalization. Trans and gender …
Brief • November 17, 2015
Adkins v. City of New York, NY, Opinion - Motion to Dismiss, Transgender - Equal Protection Clause, 2015 Case 1:14-cv-07519-JSR Document 14 Filed 11/16/15 Page 1 of 16 14-cv-7519(JSR) Plaintiff, OPINION AND ORDER -v- CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants. ------------------------------------- x JED S. RAKOFF, U.S.D.J. Like hundreds of …
Diamond v. Owens, GA, Order, transgender assault failure to protect train, 2015 Case 5:15-cv-00050-MTT Document 69 Filed 09/14/15 Page 1 of 57 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA MACON DIVISION ASHLEY A. DIAMOND, ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Plaintiff, …
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