Month: June 2017

House Spending Bill Proposes Record Levels of Funding to Stop Prisoner Rape

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., June 30, 2017 — JDI applauds the House Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee for approving a spending bill that includes $15.5 million for vital prisoner rape prevention efforts in Fiscal Year 2018 — a 50 percent increase over the previous year. The bill, which was released yesterday and quickly approved by the

Transgender Women in New York State Prisons Face Solitary Confinement and Sexual Assault

  • Aviva Stahl
  • August 7, 2014
  • Solitary Watch

It was Gay Pride weekend in New York City, but the event’s celebratory spirit was absent from Michelle Scott’s tidy second-floor apartment on a leafy street near Brooklyn College. Her child, Carey Smith, is a transgender woman currently locked up in solitary confinement in Upstate Correctional Facility, a men’s supermax prison located in the Adirondacks.

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