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Today, the Trump Administration released changes to the federal Bureau of Prisons Transgender Offender Manual that undercuts constitutional protections and efforts in federal law – specifically the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) – to protect all prisoners from sexual assault and violence.

Criminal Justice, Transgender Rights

Lambda Legal: Trump Administration Is Again Targeting the Most Vulnerable

(New York, May 11, 2018) – Today, the Trump Administration released changes to the federal Bureau of Prisons Transgender Offender Manual that undercuts constitutional protections and efforts in federal law – specifically the Prison Rape Enforcement Act (PREA) – to protect all prisoners from sexual assault and violence. Richard Saenz, Lambda Legal Staff Attorney and Criminal Justice and Police Misconduct Strategist, releases the following statement:

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Today, a federal district court ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and its contracted healthcare provider, Corizon LLC, to immediately provide Jessica Hicklin, a 38-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, with care that her doctors deem to be medically necessary treatment for her gender dysphoria.

Criminal Justice, Health Care Fairness, Transgender Rights, Hicklin v. Precythe (formerly Hicklin v. Lombardi)

Federal Court Orders Health Care for Transgender Missouri Inmate

(St. Louis, MO, February 9, 2017) — Today, a federal district court ordered the Missouri Department of Corrections (MDOC) and its contracted healthcare provider, Corizon LLC, to immediately provide Jessica Hicklin, a 38-year-old transgender woman incarcerated at the Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, with care that her doctors deem to be medically necessary treatment for her gender dysphoria, including hormone therapy, access to permanent body hair removal, and access to gender-affirming canteen items.

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Lambda Legal

Today marks the 19th Transgender Day of Remembrance.

Criminal Justice, Transgender Rights
Lambda Legal

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments in the case of Erotic Service Provider Legal, Education and Research Project (ESPLERP) v. Gascón, a case challenging California laws that criminalize sex work.

Criminal Justice, Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health
Lambda Legal

If nothing else is clear here, at least this one thing is: the current United States Department of "Justice" is going out of its way – over and over – to deny people civil rights.

Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Jeff Sessions, Karnoski v. Trump

Lambda Legal Calls out Sessions’ Hypocrisy as He Touts DOJ Assistance in Iowa Hate Crimes Case

NEW YORK (October 15, 2017) The New York Times today reported that the Department of Justice has assigned a federal prosecutor to assist in the hate crime prosecution of Kedarie/Kandicee Johnson’s murderer.

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