The Dangers of Solitary Confinement for Transgender Prisoners and Detainees by L

[SandraJane]

The Dangers of Solitary Confinement for Transgender Prisoners and Detainees by Lambda Legal


July 9, 2012


http://www.lambdalegal.org/blog/dangers-solitary-confinement-transgender-prisoners-detainees


http://www.lambdalegal.org/in-court/legal-docs/ltr_sjsccrhr_20120619_solitary-confinement


Lambda Legal recently joined five other LGBT advocacy organizations in urging a Senate panel to stop the discriminatory placement of transgender inmates and immigrant detainees in solitary confinement.

In testimony submitted to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, the organizations wrote:

    Solitary confinement affects many people incarcerated in U.S. jails, prisons, and detention facilities, but none so significantly as transgender inmates and immigrant detainees involuntarily confined not because of their actions, but because of their identities. A full review of the inhumane practice of solitary confinement and its far-reaching consequences cannot ignore the experiences of this extremely vulnerable group of people.