Month: July 2024

Colorado Prisons Just Got a Little Safer for Trans Women

  • Orion Rummler & Candice Norwood
  • June 14, 2024
  • Yes! Magazine

Taliyah Murphy, a transgender woman living in Colorado Springs, studies accounting and finance. She co-owns two small businesses with her fiancé and eventually wants to start a financial education nonprofit for marginalized people. For Murphy, starting her gender transition helped her focus on her education as she developed her career—but she faced near-impossible barriers at

Women in Texas prison say a guard is preying on them

  • Paul Flahive
  • June 25, 2024
  • Texas Public Radio

Wendy Morales said she was surprised when an officer asked her to take her top off. It came during her first moments at the Lane Murray Unit — a prison under the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — last August. Morales said Sgt. Nathaniel Aviles told her that he — not a female guard, as