The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

  • Dasus@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Well it’s simple. The US just didn’t want to give slavery away, because then they’d have had no production capabilities to compete on international markets.

    So that’s why the US has the highest % of prisoners in the world. US prison population is similar size as China’s prison population and there’s 4x as many people in China.

    1.7 million prisoners. That’s like 1/100 adults.

    And once you go in, even for a small crime, your probably just end up doing worse shit inside. The recidivism rate in the US is crazy.