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2 months ago | 
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Lawmakers have unveiled a proposal they claim will improve safety and security in prisons by addressing rampant sexual abuse—referring not to the abuse of incarcerated people, but to a purported “epidemic” of Senators Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced the Prison Staff Safety Enhancement Act on January 29. The January 31 companion bill in the House was announced by Florida Representative Laurel Lee (R).
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2 months ago | 
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On January 23, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman authorized several Justice Department agencies to arrest people suspected of entering the country without documentation.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
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On January 20, President Donald Trump unveiled an executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” It contains two directives for the United States Attorney General pertaining to the rights of transgender people while incarcerated.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
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In the year between paroling out of Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody and being thrown into county jail for a technical violation, I obtained several of the gender-affirming procedures and treatments I was denied access to while in prison. Breast augmentation, lip filler, body contouring, etc.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
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Six weeks after the United States Department of Justice published the findings of its investigation into Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) prisons, it published a similar report on its investigation into Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail. Fulton County is notoriously rife with violence and sexual assault, reminiscent of the GDC facilities where I spent most of the past 14 years.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
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In 2015, when I was about three years into a 14-year prison sentence, the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) started rolling out the first JPay tablets. The JP5s look more or less like clunky versions of what people in the free world probably picture when they think of tablets, but any resemblance is superficial.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
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Since 2008, people on sex offender registries in Missouri have been required to post a sign at their home each year on October 31: No candy or treats at this residence. In a ruling issued October 2, a federal judge found the signs unconstitutional because they’re a form of “compelled speech”—when the state forces you to express a viewpoint you don’t agree with. Judge John A.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
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Toward the end of my sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody I was a clerk in the Central State Prison law library. As part of my duties, every Tuesday I’d go over to the lockdown unit to pass out whatever case law or other legal research books had been requested by people in solitary confinement. Every cell you’d go to, someone would be begging you for toilet paper or for water.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
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Corrections officers (COs) have long relied on prisoners to do various parts of their jobs. But since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when the nation’s state and federal prisons began seeing staff quit en masse, people currently incarcerated in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) facilities report that COs are deputizing some of them to secure cell doors, inventory personal property and escort patients to medical.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
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On September 17, a federal judge halted the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) ban on gender-affirming surgery for people in its custody. After IDOC implemented the ban in 2023, the ACLU of Indiana sued on behalf of Autumn Cordellioné, a transgender woman currently in the IDOC men’s prison system.
