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Today’s Advocate has an excellent article by Andrew Harmon, dissecting the abuses faced by transgender detainees in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities. It begins with the story of a transgender woman who spent eight months in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail: A few days after Christmas last year, Ruby Corado, a longtime transgender activist in […]

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Sexual Assault

Transgender Immigrant Detainees Locked in Solitary Confinement

“Complete Lawlessness” at Orleans Parish Prison

The Silent, Terrifying World of a Deaf Prisoner

Abu Ghraib on the Allegheny: Sexual and Physical Abuse at Pennsylvania Prison

“The Destruction of the Human Spirit”: Testimony of Rev. William McGarvey on Solitary Confinement

Cruel and Usual: U.S. Solitary Confinement

Prison Rape, the PREA, and the PLRA

Massachusetts Prison Whistleblower Is Punished and Silenced

Prison Whistleblower Condemned to Solitary Confinement

Massachusetts Prisoner Who Exposed Sex-for-Snitching Ring Sent to Solitary

Our Homegrown American Gitmos

Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape Takes Her Case to the Supreme Court

Sex-for-Snitching Ring Reported at Massachusetts Prison

LGBT Kids in Prison Face Rape, Beatings, and Isolation

The Prisoner’s Catch-22

Two Clinton Era Laws That Allow Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Redux)

Woman Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Reporting Rape by Guard

The Parable of Yarl’s Wood

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Solitary Confinement for Transgender Inmate in Virginia