by admin | Jan 17, 2017 | Detention Project, Press Releases, Prisons and Policing
Transgender Law Center executive director Kris Hayashi issued the following statement about the news today that President Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning’s sentence: “We thank President Obama for recognizing that Chelsea Manning deserves to be free. In its...
by admin | Aug 16, 2016 | Detention Project, Featured, Legal, Policy, Prisons and Policing, Uncategorized
On June 1, 2016, after months of abusive treatment while in custody in a San Francisco jail, Athena Cadence decided to take matters into her own hands. She declared a hunger strike, refusing to eat until the San Francisco Sheriff allowed transgender women to be housed...
by admin | Jun 16, 2016 | Detention Project, Featured, Immigration, Press Releases
Today, five transgender women who have survived immigration detention met with Alejandro Mayorkas, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, to share their stories of abuse in custody and to demand an end to the detention of transgender immigrants. The first-of-its-kind...
by admin | May 26, 2016 | Detention Project, Featured, Press Releases
Transgender Law Center welcomed today’s policy and supporting research by Amnesty International on protecting sex workers’ rights. In the policy, Amnesty International calls on governments to decriminalize consensual sex work and urges that laws related to...
by Flor Bermudez | May 24, 2016 | Detention Project, Featured, Federal, Immigration, Uncategorized
This week, U.S. immigration officials announced they are opening a new detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, which will have a unit devoted to housing transgender detainees. While the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have...
by admin | May 24, 2016 | Detention Project, Prisons and Policing, Resources
Transgender Law Center is proud to join the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and the Center for American Progress (CAP), along with several other partner organizations, in releasing a new report today offering a snapshot of how the U.S. criminal justice system fails...
