Incarcerated transgender adults and juveniles experience violence and sexual abuse at the hands of inmates and staff, despite constitutional protections. This experience is shared by all transgender ...

A Justice Department memo obtained by NPR says detention centers should no longer be inspected using standards specifically designed to keep LGBTQ and intersex inmates safe. Andrew Harnik / AP The ...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is taking further action to keep male inmates away from women’s prisons, but potential obstacles remain. “For years, officials have used ‘because PREA’ as ...

The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, ...