This report recommends federal action to address pervasive profiling, punishment and imprisonment of LGBT people and people living with HIV. ...
admin - 6/15/2017 10:42am
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
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 ...
admin - 5/16/2014 11:28am
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
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
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
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
In this article author Gabriel Arkles gives a scholarly analysis of the role of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in prison litigation. ...
admin - 9/20/2017 12:03pm
MISSISSIPPI – U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., dismissed a pro se complaint filed by Cedric Jerome McCullum, an inmate at the Jackson County Adult Detention Center, who claimed his rights had been violated when he was incorrectly diagnosed HIV posit ...
admin - 12/9/2015 10:21am
MISSISSIPPI – U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., dismissed a pro se complaint filed by Cedric Jerome McCullum, an inmate at the Jackson County Adult Detention Center, who claimed his rights had been violated when he was incorrectly diagnosed HIV posit ...
admin - 12/9/2015 10:22am