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Trans women of color, standing proud and getting loud: We see you and honor your dignity and resolve.🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Even with no media access to Guantánamo Bay, we give you a view from the ground. And the names of the 53 Venezuelan men the Trump administration has been holding inside a prison, under U.S. military guard. w/ @charliesavage.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

What's the difference between filing a civil lawsuit & filing a charge (criminal complaint)? Civil cases involve disputes between individuals or organizations, often seeking monetary compensation or specific actions, while criminal charges involve offenses against government. No charges filed here.👇

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index ranks the US 28th (down from 24) noting that SCOTUS has adopted an ethics code but 'serious questions remain about the lack of meaningful, objective enforcement mechanisms & the strength of the new rules.' www.transparency.org/en/press/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 Trump’s Executive Order Sows Confusion for Transgender Federal Prisoners Without guidance from the Bureau of Prisons, trans people are “told one thing from one staff person and a totally different thing from another.” via @themarshallproject.org www.themarshallproject.org/2025/02/11/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Tallahassee's Destiny Hibbler remembers her Mom asking what she wanted to be. Now an attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Hibbler pays it forward. She wrote Dear Little Brown Child, You Will Be Your Wildest Dream with an A-to-Z career listing. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from implementing anti-trans Trump orders that would stop trans-related medical care in federal prisons and lead to trans inmates’ transfers. This followed a hearing in DC earlier today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 20 days ago • 62 comments

Incarcerated people have asked for more cameras in NY prisons for years, and the state has spent millions. Yet it took the brutal killing of Robert Brooks for them to speed up the process of equipping COs with cameras. Looked into it with @chrisgelardi.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/02/03/r...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Homeland Security refuses to say whether migrant women, children or families will be included in Trump administration expansion plans for the infamous Guantánamo Bay detention center. Trump says he will expand a detention facility there to hold 30,000 people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 A shocking new documentary, "The Alabama Solution," reports on inhumane living conditions, forced labor & violence against incarcerated people, using footage shot on contraband cellphones, offering one of the most visceral depictions of prison ever captured on film. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

🧵 Several trans women incarcerated in federal prisons have been put in isolation & notified of their transfer to men’s prisons. The women were moved in the days following Trump’s executive order that excludes transgender people from sex discrimination protections. uk.news.yahoo.com/trans-women-...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 29 days ago • 1093 comments

Read the complaint filed in federal court in Massachusetts by a trans woman placed in solitary before mandated transfer to men's prison: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Boom 💥 👇

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I’m telling everyone: Do not open the door or say a word unless you’re expecting someone and know exactly who it is. Know your rights. Pass these around…

submitted 31 days ago • 690 comments

🧵 Leader of @nacdl.org defense attorney anti-racism task force says DEI vital in criminal legal system apnews.com/live/trump-p...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) condemns the passage of the Laken Riley Act, a law which subjects undocumented persons to mandatory, prolonged detention based on mere arrest for suspicion of theft-related offenses, including shoplifting. www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

🧵 Please share. This targeting of trans individuals is outrageous and alarming! National Defense Bar Condemns Executive Order Removing Safe Housing, Healthcare, and Rape Protections for Trans Individuals Incarcerated in Federal Prisons Washington, DC www.nacdl.org/newsrelease/...

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

Trump's executive orders targeting trans people behind bars flout years of legal precedent, federal policy, and guidelines issued under the Prison Rape Elimination Act — but whether courts agree will be another question.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

One of the darkest, but less reported, aspects of Trump’s anti-trans order this week IMO is that he directed the DOJ to remove protections for trans prisoners from Prison Rape Elimination Act guidelines. Story at @theappeal.org today from @byadamrhodes.bsky.social: theappeal.org/trump-execut...

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

It's exciting, to say the least... 🤭🤣😎⚖️💼 #nacdl #memes #Inauguration2025

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Multiple UFW union offices received this in the mail this week. Thanks for reaching out!

submitted 34 days ago • 202 comments