Category: JDI in the News

Trump DOJ Defunds National Prison Rape Resource Center

  • Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
  • April 23, 2025
  • The Appeal

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center. The Department of Justice has terminated all funding for the National Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Resource Center, according to a letter from the National PREA Resource Center obtained by The

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

  • Kaley Johnson and Sam Levin
  • March 7, 2025
  • The Guardian

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’ Transgender women incarcerated in the US prison system have been transferred to men’s facilities under Donald Trump’s executive order, despite multiple court rulings blocking the president’s policy, according to civil rights lawyers and accounts from behind bars. Trump’s day-one “gender ideology” order, one of several

Prison work assignments used to lure and rape female inmates. Guards sometimes walk free

  • Margie Mason and Robin McDowell
  • October 31, 2024
  • Associated Press

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — It was after midnight when she crept down the narrow, dimly lit stairs carrying a bag of dirty laundry. She crossed under a patchwork of pipes and ducts to the far back corner of the basement, as she had done many times before. That, she said, is where correctional officer James

‘People Will Die’ from Trump’s Trans Prisoner Crackdown, Experts Warn

  • Adam M. Rhodes
  • January 22, 2025
  • The Appeal

One of Trump’s first executive orders says federal prisons must house trans women in men’s facilities and directs the government to remove anti-rape protections for trans prisoners. On the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump severely restricted transgender prisoners’ access to safe housing and proper medical care. Trump’s series of sweeping executive

Christmas, Incarcerated

  • Tana Ganeva
  • December 23, 2024
  • Truthdig

A card-writing program brings light to what can be a dark time of the year for prisoners. On a February afternoon in 1985, Robbie Hall was walking home from her job as a janitor in an office building in Los Angeles when a man came up behind her, grabbed her, dragged her to an alley,