12 The present project focuses solely on transgender people who are in prison and covers a broader range of topics about people’s trajectories in the criminal legal system, their incarceration experiences, and their views on prison policies. The next step is for governments and prison authorities, in collaboration with advocacy groups, to develop concrete policy changes with clear and ongoing mechanisms for input from transgender people and their allies. (See “Transgender people’s views on policy and their policy recommendations” on page 50.) Many of the policy recommendations in this report align with other recent initiatives to build policy changes to address the needs of incarcerated transgender people. The last section of the report presents participants’ reflections about existing policies in prison and their concrete suggestions for how prison policies and practices could be improved.

Source: Washington Post February 20, 2024 14:59 UTC