Missouri to Change Its Prison Policy After Holding a Woman With HIV in Solitary for Years

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Missouri to Change Its Prison Policy After Holding a Woman With HIV in Solitary for Years

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August 21, 2025

By Kavahn Mansouri, The Midwest Newsroom, and Katie Moore, The Marshall Project Honesty Bishop could hear the screams of other ...

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How a Trans Woman’s Supreme Court Case Changed the Law from Prison

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July 17, 2025

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Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is. Farmer v. Brennan is among ...

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What, to the American Incarcerated Person, Is Your Fourth of July?

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July 4, 2025

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Additional reporting by Kiki Dunston On July 5, 1852, the formerly enslaved abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered his scathing Independence Day ...

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Why Prisons Must Allow Hormone Therapy for Trans People Despite Trump’s Order

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June 3, 2025

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Filed 3:25 p.m. EDT 06.03.2025 The district judge ordered the prison system to continue providing hormone therapy to transgender people ...

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Is Trump’s Gender Care Ban for Trans Prisoners Unconstitutional?

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May 23, 2025

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Filed 5:35 p.m. EDT 05.22.2025 A federal judge considers if the president’s executive order barring hormone treatment in the Bureau ...

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Trans Women Federal Prisoners Told They Will Be Moved, Fear for Safety

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February 22, 2025

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Filed 7:20 p.m. EST 02.21.2025 A small change in a judge’s order appears to have led the Trump administration to ...

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How Trump’s Trans Order Sows Chaos for Federal Prisoners, Staff

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February 11, 2025

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Filed 6:00 a.m. EST 02.11.2025 Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one ...

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Trans Woman Settles Pending Lawsuits with Federal Prisons After Winning 2 Cases

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January 24, 2025

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Attorneys for the federal prison system agreed last week to pay $95,000 to a transgender woman who had alleged in ...

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New Florida Policy on Trans Care in Prison Like “Conversion Therapy”

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December 10, 2024

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Earlier this fall, Florida officials ordered transgender women in the state’s prisons to submit to breast exams. As part of ...

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Prison Violence Against Transgender People: 3 Things to Know

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November 13, 2024

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About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of ...

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