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.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      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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      17 hours ago

      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.