Category: JDI in the News

New rules to protect children in custody from abuse

  • Susan Carroll
  • December 23, 2014
  • The Houston Chronicle

Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…

Why Americans Don’t Care About Prison Rape

  • Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig
  • March 2, 2015
  • The Nation

Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…

Warders’ jobs are hard labour

  • Aarti J Narsee
  • January 28, 2015
  • The Times

Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…

Long-ignored Problem: Prison Rape

  • January 5, 2015
  • Associated Press

Less than a week after the Justice Department intervened in support of a transgender inmate’s lawsuit against Georgia, the state said Thursday…

This Charity Sends Christmas Cards To Prison Rape Survivors

  • Jessica Testa
  • December 23, 2014
  • BuzzFeed

Every year, a group of men and women who were sexually assaulted while incarcerated gather to write holiday cards to victims still behind bars. In the months after Joe Booth was raped by another inmate in a California correctional facility, he recalls, he wrote somewhere between 20 and 50 letters to law enforcement agencies, prosecutors,