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Federal judge says Oregon must house trans inmates by gender identity, not Trump’s policy
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Appeals court clears path to move trans women into men’s prisons despite sexual assault risk
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Appeals Court Pivots on Trans Inmate Housing, Reversing Earlier Blocks
Federal appeals court allows Bureau of Prisons to transfer transgender women to men's facilities, reversing earlier blocks. Who is affected?
#TransInmateRights, #PrisonPolicy, #AppealsCourt, #BureauOfPrisons, #ACLU
https://newsletter.tf/appeals-court-trans-inmate-transfers-men-prisons/
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A federal appeals court has reversed earlier decisions, allowing the Bureau of Prisons to move transgender women to men's correctional facilities. This decision impacts 18 inmates.
#TransInmateRights, #PrisonPolicy, #AppealsCourt, #BureauOfPrisons, #ACLU
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Did someone say "Waste, fraud, and abuse"?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/03/trump-alcatraz-prison
#trump #trumpcrimefamily #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #epsteinclass #alcatrazz #waste #fraud #abuse #abuseofpower #overreach #idiocracy #kakistocracy #plutocracy #sanfrancisco #kqed #bureauofprisons -
Trump just rolled out a cruel anti-trans prison policy doctors are calling ‘dangerous’
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Countless ICE encounters were posted today of ICE threatening anyone filming.
This video is pretty odd though because these federal goons are actually wearing Bureau of Prisons uniforms.
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Countless ICE encounters were posted today of ICE threatening anyone filming.
This video is pretty odd though because these federal goons are actually wearing Bureau of Prisons uniforms.
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As Federal Prisons Run Low On Food And Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving In Droves For ICE
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As Federal Prisons Run Low On Food And Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Are Leaving In Droves For ICE
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#SexOffender status of #GhislaineMaxwell was #Waived. By Whom? She is Now in minimum security #ClubFed that includes daily work release for which she has been officially cleared. This has never happened in the history of the #BureauofPrisons. #crimes #criminals #corruption #AlexAcosta #epstein #sextrafficking #courts #Dershowitz #trump #maga #coverup She is 6 miles away from Texas A&M University. She was cleared for release #pardon #victims #survivors #justice h/t https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-i-have-ghislaine-maxwells
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#SexOffender status of #GhislaineMaxwell was #Waived. By Whom? She is Now in minimum security #ClubFed that includes daily work release for which she has been officially cleared. This has never happened in the history of the #BureauofPrisons. #crimes #criminals #corruption #AlexAcosta #epstein #sextrafficking #courts #Dershowitz #trump #maga #coverup She is 6 miles away from Texas A&M University. She was cleared for release #pardon #victims #survivors #justice h/t https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-i-have-ghislaine-maxwells
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Trump’s appointment of William K. Marshall III as Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons is a glaring example of placing politics over public safety.
Marshall lacks any federal corrections experience and is steeped in controversy from his tenure in West Virginia. Under his leadership at the West Virginia Department of Corrections, the system faced lawsuits alleging inhumane conditions, including lack of access to water and food, overcrowding, and unchecked violence. A federal judge noted intentional destruction of records related to these allegations. Despite these issues, Marshall has now been elevated to oversee the entire federal prison system.
This appointment disregards the Bureau’s tradition of promoting experienced insiders and raises serious concerns about the future management of federal prisons. #uspol #prison #bureauofprisons #incarceration
🔗 The Marshall Project: What to Know About William Marshall: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/12/billy-marshall-facts-trump-federal-prisons
🔗 BOP Official Announcement: https://www.bop.gov/news/20250428-deputy-ag-blanche-swears-in-william-k-marshall-iii.jsp
🔗 AP News: Lawsuit on West Virginia Jail Conditions Settled: https://apnews.com/article/b9c27a1937b5f2d97d860fa206dfccba -
In a story that's not really making many waves in the US media because transphobia, transmisogyny, and hating incarcerated people are all bipartisan establishment positions, the Trump administration is also transferring incarcerated trans women to men's prisons; despite the fact that it's both illegal, and multiple judges have issued restraining orders to prevent the regime from doing so:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/transgender-women-prison-trump
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
"Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars.
Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several sweeping attacks on trans rights, said the attorney general “shall ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.
The executive order was quickly challenged in court. In three lawsuits filed on behalf of trans women housed in women’s prisons, federal judges have ruled that the US Bureau of Prisons (BOP) cannot withhold their medical treatment and was barred from moving them to men’s facilities. One judge said the plaintiffs had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow."
Lawyers fighting Trump’s directive say the court rulings prevented the transfers of 17 trans women who are plaintiffs in the cases, but others not included in the litigation are now facing placements in men’s facilities."
In case you're missing the shell game going on here, the Trump administration is pretending that only the 17 specific trans women mentioned in the cases to block this cruel fuckery are covered, while simply going ahead to target other trans women who are not specifically mentioned in the court orders. Not only is this an abnormal, malicious violation of the spirit of the judge's orders, but it's also literally straight up illegal:
"Prisons are required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (Prea), a longstanding federal law, to screen incarcerated people for sexual assault risk and consider LGBTQ+ status when making housing decisions. Legal experts say Trump’s blanket policy of housing trans women in men’s facilities clearly violates Prea."
This is a hard story to read, because it demonstrates a pattern of pointless, wonton cruelty towards trans women by Trump's Bureau of Prisons; in addition to moving trans women to men only facilities that put them in very real danger, the BOP has also issued *orders* for guards to deadname prisoners and use incorrect pronouns, change their gender markers on official forms, deny requests for gender appropriate clothing, and to allow male guards to pat down trans women prisoners. Furthermore because this administration (and some would say, American society) hates trans women more than they like ice cream, nobody is making any effort here to prevent abuses that would seemingly go even beyond Trump's fascist executive order. There are already reports of male guards "groping" trans women prisoners, prison officials seizing the bras and underwear of trans women prisoners like they were contraband, threats to force detransition incarcerated trans women by denying their hormone therapy, and even one report of a woman who had gender-affirming surgeries before her incarceration, being moved to a men's prison. As one lawyer noted, this "is essentially sanctioning sexual assault in some instances."
Of course, given that trans people represent a microscopic minority inside the U.S. population, and 17 trans women are being protected by temporary restraining orders, only a small number of trans women are subject to what I'd describe as a form of psychological torture and the constant threat of violence; perhaps that's why the US political and media establishment in the "opposition" doesn't care, rather than their well established indifference towards trans lives, if not outright transphobia. I would however argue that the fact that the Trump administration is plowing ahead to target such a small number of trans women demonstrates that this isn't about safety or the rule of law; the cruelty is indeed the point, and a Trump regime that cares little about malnourished children, seniors living check to check on social security, or American workers, is clearly prepared to move heaven and earth to make existence so intolerable for trans women that they simply stop existing.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #TransRights #BureauOfPrisons #Cruelty #SexualAssault #transmisogyny #USPol #PreaAct
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Judge Indira Talwani, who sentenced Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison for leaking classified information, took the unusual step of recommending that the Bureau of Prisons make eight specific books available to Teixeira in prison. These books, including "Asperger's Syndrome and Jail: A survival guide" by Will Attwood, are intended to address Teixeira's autism and ADHD.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-requests-autism-books-jack-090449631.html
#autism #autistic #BureauOfPrisons #BOP #books #asperger #aspergers #JackTeixeira #Teixeira #ADHD
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Judge Indira Talwani, who sentenced Jack Teixeira to 15 years in prison for leaking classified information, took the unusual step of recommending that the Bureau of Prisons make eight specific books available to Teixeira in prison. These books, including "Asperger's Syndrome and Jail: A survival guide" by Will Attwood, are intended to address Teixeira's autism and ADHD.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-requests-autism-books-jack-090449631.html
#autism #autistic #BureauOfPrisons #BOP #books #asperger #aspergers #JackTeixeira #Teixeira #ADHD
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Judge will appoint special master to oversee California federal women's prison after rampant abuse
A special master will be appointed to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, a judge ordered Friday, marking the first time the federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such oversight.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/judge-appoints-special-master-to-oversee-19088327.php
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Judge will appoint special master to oversee California federal women's prison after rampant abuse
A special master will be appointed to oversee a troubled federal women’s prison in California known for rampant sexual abuse against inmates, a judge ordered Friday, marking the first time the federal Bureau of Prisons has been subject to such oversight.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/judge-appoints-special-master-to-oversee-19088327.php
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Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year prison sentence shortened by two years
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Justice Dept. Struggles to Carry Out Early Release Program for Abused Inmates
The Bureau of Prisons has rejected the early release of a female inmate who said she had been sexually abused by male employees at a notorious California penitentiary, reflecting a broader struggle by the Justice Department to free inmates abused in federal custody, when appropriate
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/federal-prisons-inmate-abuse.html
#abuse #women #prisoners #Bureauofprisons #California #federalprisoners
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Justice Dept. Struggles to Carry Out Early Release Program for Abused Inmates
The Bureau of Prisons has rejected the early release of a female inmate who said she had been sexually abused by male employees at a notorious California penitentiary, reflecting a broader struggle by the Justice Department to free inmates abused in federal custody, when appropriate
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/federal-prisons-inmate-abuse.html
#abuse #women #prisoners #Bureauofprisons #California #federalprisoners
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#AmericansOfConscienceChecklist "Good News" for Feb 17, 2023
National Good News (Part 2)
The State Dept. takes steps to streamline the domestic #visa renewal process by eliminating the requirement that H-1B visa holders leave the U.S. to renew their visas.
The State Dept. resolves a class action lawsuit regarding #DisabilityDiscrimination against Foreign Service applicants.
The #BureauofPrisons closes a site known for frequent reports of violence and abuse.
https://americansofconscience.com/02-17-2023/?#goodnews
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#AmericansOfConscienceChecklist "Good News" for Feb 17, 2023
National Good News (Part 2)
The State Dept. takes steps to streamline the domestic #visa renewal process by eliminating the requirement that H-1B visa holders leave the U.S. to renew their visas.
The State Dept. resolves a class action lawsuit regarding #DisabilityDiscrimination against Foreign Service applicants.
The #BureauofPrisons closes a site known for frequent reports of violence and abuse.
https://americansofconscience.com/02-17-2023/?#goodnews
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Federal prisons are supposed to provide addiction medication. Prisoners are punished for using it.
#opioidaddiction #prisoners #bureauofprisons
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-prison-suboxone-addiction-medication-rcna60946