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 ā€œimmediatelyā€ 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 ā€œimmediately pauseā€ all ā€œcompliance determinationsā€ for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to ā€œdisregardā€ 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.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.ml
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    now now it is illegal to say that if you’re talking about trump, but NOT illegal to say ā€œwith a mortar launcherā€ because that’s its own sentence; it’s an incomplete sentence that had absolutely nothing to do with what was said before that, so perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

    still illegal to wish death on trump (as president) though, but technically legal to say ā€œwe have a group that meets fridays under the brooklyn bridge, we sing sabrina carpenter karaokes after meetings, and the password is ā€˜sic semper tyrannisā€™ā€.