REPORT: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT Americans

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REPORT: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT Americans

http://www.advocate.com/crime/2016/2/23/report-how-broken-criminal-justice-system-fails-lgbt-americans

The Advocate/By Dawn Ennis February 23 2016 4:41 PM EST

"A new report on the incarceration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans and how the nation's criminal justice system treats LGBT people shows how they are disproportionately imprisoned and face abuse behind bars.

The study's authors, the Center for American Progress in conjunction with the Movement Advancement Project and in partnership with other groups, found that LGBT people are more likely than the average American to interact with law enforcement and to have their lives "criminalized" as a result of what the groups call "pervasive stigma and discrimination, biased enforcement of laws, and discriminatory ."