DOJ Tells Prisons to Put Safety First in Housing Transgender Inmates
- Beth Schwartzapfel
- March 29, 2016
- The Marshall Project
Rules from 2012 are too often ignored, advocates say. The Justice Department, under pressure from advocates, has issued a memorandum reasserting its policy that transgender prisoners cannot be housed according to their anatomy alone but must be assigned to facilities on a case-by-case basis, with the inmate’s own sense of where he or she would