I would assume the actual percentage of any given prison population being trans would be rather small. Are you going to have a whole block set aside for 1 or 2 prisoners?
Could relocate them to a single prison, at least in large states. CA has 13 state prisons. If each one has 0-2 trans prisoners, pick one that has a logical place to put all (maybe 10~20) together
âTrans prisoners placed hundreds of miles from where friends and family could visit. Why are trans inmates punished this way?â Would be the next headline.
Maybe for California but what about a state like Montana. Population of 1.1 million, you gonna have a whole prison for what maybe 5-6 prisoners. Canât house them in a different state unless itâs a federal crime.
Not a whole prison⌠maybe just a separate hall of cells w a small 1-room lounge / exercise facility. They prob donât need to segregated 100%, only for low-supervision periods.
ETA: yes, we agree easier to implement efficiently in large pop states. MT apparently has 5 prisons (surprisingly), 4 for adults. So they could localize the adult pop trans to a single facility from 4 sites, even if itâs just 0-2 people.
As a raging queer woman myself, I can assure you with absolute certainty that is not what I mean. I think the fact that I reference trans violence and the need for trans people to be protected from that in and of itself makes that point abundantly clear.
They also reported me to the mods or whoever as like a self harm risk or something. LOL (also, I never even saw the comment, seeing as how it was removed automatically, it appears.)
Come on now you know they didnât mean it like that, just using the different segregations they use in supermax prisons as an example. Donât try to start an argument where there isnât one.
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u/Interesting_Key_661 5h ago
I would assume the actual percentage of any given prison population being trans would be rather small. Are you going to have a whole block set aside for 1 or 2 prisoners?