The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse
TheĀ U.S. Department of Justice will āimmediatelyā stop enforcingĀ a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.
In a memoĀ obtained by the non-profit news outletĀ Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to āimmediately pauseā all ācompliance determinationsā for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to ādisregardā them.
Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.
I wonder when Donvict issues executive order to reverse Wās PREA.
hopefully nobody reminds them because Iām confident these people think prison rape is the entire point of prisons
Oh, for sure. I grew up in a deeply red part of the country, and if you donāt already know, I assure you that there are many conservatives that think rape is, and should be, part of the ācorrectionalā prison complex. That if you commit a crime, even something relatively minor, if you donāt go to get prison and get raped, well, then, they personally feel you cheated or that the system isnāt working quite properly. Because prison is supposed to be punishment, and obviously, that means rape, I guess. And other forms of violence.
Again, thatās for male cishet prisoners. Unless you are āmanlyā enough to avoid it, I guess. Anyone else - they deserve it.
Iām quite sure that for trans/intersex their thoughts are even more horrible.