These tables and data, published by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), are based on sexual victimization surveys of self-identified transgender respondents in federal prisons and jails. ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:15am
This is a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a case filed by an HIV positive prison inmate in Florida against the Broward County sheriff’s department and jail physician, alleging deliberate indifference to his medical needs by ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:51am
This report describes the public health implications of mass incarceration. It summarizes what is known about the burden of disease among people who experience incarceration, identifies the conditions of confinement that are deleterious for health, and dis ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:24am
This report, released in December 2013, is based on research conducted between February and September of that year in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city with the second highest rate of HIV infection in the United States and the fourth highest rate of AIDS amon ...
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Discrimination and profiling by police have led to a disproportionately large number of LGBT people being incarcerated. Family rejection, homelessness and poverty make LGBT youth especially vulnerable not only to arrest but also physical and sexual assault ...
admin - 10/22/2015 11:33am
Defendant, Thompson, an inmate at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) living with HIV, allegedly threw a cup full of feces at a nurse, hitting her hair, face, arms, chest, and left leg, and also ruining medication she was distributing. Thompson ...
admin - 10/26/2015 10:27am
This United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi memorandum opinion and order grants defendant Sheriff Randall Tucker’s motion for summary judgment. A motion for summary judgment asks the court to decide in one party’s favor befo ...
admin - 6/6/2014 1:17pm
This judgment denies plaintiff Michael Lotz’s motions for a preliminary injunction requiring his correctional facility to provide him with certain pain medications to alleviate the symptoms of advanced HIV and other conditions. In July and August 2013, Lo ...
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These essays, excerpts, and stories from the new report, A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People with HIV, highlight the need for federal action to address pervasive profiling, puni ...
admin - 6/15/2017 10:44am