A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men’s prisons, overturning a lower court’s ruling earlier this year.
The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unanimously to overturn an April ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ordering the Oregon Department of Corrections to assume that trans women prisoners should be housed in women’s prisons, and then assess individual cases to confirm that placement, not the other way around.
I had no idea and it’s horrifying; paraphrasing: we allow them to rape the trans woman to reduce their violence against other inmates… Because the raped trans woman is not considered an inmate? Because raping is not violent? Or because a man with a black eye is worse than a woman with a black eye??
I think the idea is that people are less likely to try to kill someone they’ve been given free reign to rape than someone that pisses them off. And that trans women who’ve been hurt are less capable of attacking guards than cis men who’ve been hurt
That… Fuck, that kinda “explains” it… It also makes it even worse, the fact that “they will retaliate against us less” is part of the rationale, when the guards have all the power, is even more disgusting.
Yeah, prison guards are often really awful people. Cowardly bully types especially. It’s why they’re among the first to fight against rehabilitation programs and ending solitary confinement (which is generally agreed by psychologists to be a form of torture)