The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will “immediately” stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

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    And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.

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    Seems like a feature of American prisons. Never see articles about European prisons having problems with rape.

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      now now it is illegal to say that if you’re talking about trump, but NOT illegal to say “with a mortar launcher” because that’s its own sentence; it’s an incomplete sentence that had absolutely nothing to do with what was said before that, so perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

      still illegal to wish death on trump (as president) though, but technically legal to say “we have a group that meets fridays under the brooklyn bridge, we sing sabrina carpenter karaokes after meetings, and the password is ‘sic semper tyrannis’”.

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    Going to Hell is getting off too easy for these people. Jfc. I want to fucking scream at the top of my lungs.

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      There is no hell - if we want them to ever face some kind of punishment for their actions, we’re gonna have to do it ourselves…

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    In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to “immediately pause” all “compliance determinations” for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to “disregard” them.

    Holy shit, Tammie M Gregg was former director of the National Prison Project for the ACLU. Goddamn.

    Tammie M. Gregg was the Deputy Director for the ACLU’s National Prison Project. Tammie also led the ACLU’s Stop Solitary campaign. Tammie came to NPP from a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies. After beginning her career with law firms in Minneapolis and Washington, in 2000 she joined DOJ as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division. From 2003 to 2011 she was a senior attorney in the Special Litigation Section, where she worked on cases involving prisons, jails, and policing. She rose to the level of Principal Deputy Chief of the Section, where she provided day-to-day supervision to a staff of over 70 people.

    What the actual goddamned fuck

    15th National Indian Nations Conference - Opening Remarks - Tammie Gregg

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      Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

      No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

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        Well it’s simple. The US just didn’t want to give slavery away, because then they’d have had no production capabilities to compete on international markets.

        So that’s why the US has the highest % of prisoners in the world. US prison population is similar size as China’s prison population and there’s 4x as many people in China.

        1.7 million prisoners. That’s like 1/100 adults.

        And once you go in, even for a small crime, your probably just end up doing worse shit inside. The recidivism rate in the US is crazy.

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    If you order and carry out this kind of thing, there is something wrong with your brain.

    Even W had the fucking decency to start initiatives to do something about prison rape, FFS.

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    Fuck this whole administration. Fucking disgusting.

    I’m not American, but that violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” part of the constitution, no?

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      There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I’ve encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it’s deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.

      They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.

      When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they’d give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn’t even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.

      I’m sure these people think that trans/intersex “deserve” it even more so…

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        People like that think rape is ok, period. They don’t believe women about it, either, because they think any “excuse” you give the rapist is valid whether it’s wearing a skirt, having a drink, being LGBT+, committing any crime, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc.

        They think rape is the right of men. (They likely also believe female perpetrated rape isn’t real at all)

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      The ghouls on the supreme court have ruled that to be banned, a punishment must be both cruel and unusual. If it’s cruel and common then it’s fine for certain types of cruelty. Like solitary confinement lasting weeks, or months, or even years in some cases.

      There are more okay forms of cruelty, and a lot of things that are banned, but fewer banned things than anyone with human empathy would condone.

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    A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority

    Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes

    How about just making sure that rape doesn’t happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It’s seriously wild that “don’t drop your soap now!” os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.

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      and we have no one to stop them

      It’s not going to take “one” to stop them.

      It’ll take concerted group action.

      Which seems impossible in a country of “rugged individualists” who don’t seem to grasp the concept of working together toward a common goal.

      (Don’t just downvote me - prove my cynicism wrong)

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      They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.