All posts tagged "prison"
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Gay man suing Colorado prison for allowing him to be raped and beaten by fellow prisoner
A prison officer laughed after the inmate said he had been beaten and raped for three days
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Talk show guest who killed gay man with crush on him released from jail
Jonathan Schmitz killed Scott Amedure after being embarrassed by revelation on national television
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Former Rentboy CEO sentenced to 6 months in prison
The former CEO of online escort site Rentboy.com has been sentenced to six months in prison after the judge overseeing the case said she wanted...
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Man who poured boiling water on gay couple gets 40 years in prison
Prosecutors say Martin Blackwell was motivated by his disgust for the couple's same-sex relationship
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Jerusalem Gay Pride attacker beaten up in prison
Incident marks second time in a month that Yishai Schlissel has physically fought with his fellow inmates
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Judge refuses to reduce sentence in Philadelphia anti-gay assault
A woman convicted of assaulting a gay couple in Philadelphia in 2014 will serve out the full remainder of her prison sentence.
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San Diego man jailed for intentionally spreading HIV: “I am not a monster”
–Thomas Miguel Guerra, a San Diego gay man sentenced to six months in jail for intentionally infecting his ex-boyfriend with HIV, as well as exposing...
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Hateful Times
I dearly want to write a horrible and mean and nasty column about the race-baiting journalistic train wreck of Tucker Carlson, but it's been done...
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DCTC vs. Virginia
The DC Trans Coalition (DCTC), a local advocacy group advancing the civil rights of transgender people, has filed a friend of the court brief urging...
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Prison Progress
On Feb. 20 the D.C. Department of Corrections issued its new policy regarding the treatment of transgender inmates. The document was drafted after activists, including...
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Riled Over Rules
In the months-long debate between the District and the transgender community regarding the treatment of gender-variant detainees in District jails, the ongoing dialogue seems to...
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Transforming Corrections
D.C. Trans Coalition continues effort to amend DOC guidelines on transgender inmates Complaints regarding the handling of transgender inmates in D.C. jails, including stories from...
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Prison Guideline Grudge
Jeri Hughes, a member of D.C. Trans Coalition, on June 12 fired the latest shot in an ongoing melee between the D.C. Department of Corrections...
