The Prison System Is Set Up To House Inmates Based On Their

Transgender people are discriminated against due to a variety of reasons. We will look at how being transgendered in prison affects their right to health care, how health care laws are changing for people who have transgender identity disorder (GID) and how the Eighth Amendment is

Prisoners that are incarcerated go through many hardships during the course of their sentence. The mistreatment that inmates in prison encounter is unjustifiable in many cases. Amongst the inmates mistreated, transgender prisoners are challenged in many ways with abuse, misconduct, and discrimination. Transgender individuals are people who do not identify themselves with the gender that was assigned at birth. The high-risk profile of being a transgender inmate in prison strikes for deep concern and something needs to be done.

Imagine being a woman in a men’s prison. For many prisoners, this is the case because most state court correctional decide to sentence transsexual women in transition inmates based on sex assignment, not their identity. Within most dominant U.S. cultures transsexual women in transition are defined as those whose sense of gender is so absolutely opposed to their sex assignment at birth that they individuals desire to live exclusively as the opposite sex, undergo hormone treatments to align with the opposite sex, and sometimes undergo surgery to match their sexual organs with their gender identity (Stirnitzke 291). Often people are

Transgendered people in America have made many great strides since the 1990s. They have encountered violence, lack of health care, and the loss of homes, jobs, family and friends. There have been many phases of the struggle of being transgendered in America over the years. The current phase we must be in now is equal rights. There are many variations of discrimination against the transgendered community. In our society we simply do not like what we do not understand. It is easier to discriminate than to try and understand. We are all created different and we should appreciate our differences. The change must come by addressing the views of the public. There is much justification in the unequal rights of transgendered peoples. The Human

There is not a plethora of research on the transgender inmate population. Brown and McDuffie (2009) report 750 transgender prisoners were in custody in 2007. The only reason this population is last on the list of importance is because of the limited population. Transgender inmate population pose one of the most challenging legal questions to the DOC. How far does the DOC have to go in providing medical, psychiatric, or surgical needs to those inmates who enter the correctional facility as transgender (Brown & McDuffie, 2009). There has been some successful litigation that has addressed these issues with inmates who have been diagnosed with gender identity disorders (GID). Brown and McDuffie (2009), suggest California has some of the most “comprehensive directive” that allows inmates to continue or initiate “cross-sex hormones for appropriately diagnosed inmates” (p.288). Ultimately, the transgender population pose a real threat to the correctional environment, such as, safety issues and predatory behavior by other inmates. One area of concern for transgender inmate population, because it is such a relatively new population, there are not a lot of facilities medically equipped to care for them properly (Brown & McDuffie, 2009), a lot like the elderly inmate population. This population is as equally at risk of being violated as any of the other special

There are three themes in this statement given, which include health management, patient safety and discharge planning. The main focus of the article involves care for HIV diagnosed transgender within the correction system (Phillips & Patsdaughter, 2010). Transgender experiences involve maintaining their health following their HIV diagnosis and continuing their physical transition process. Health management “policies that attempt to freeze gender transition at the stage reached before incarceration are inappropriate and out of step with medical standards, and therefore should be avoided” (Phillips & Patsdaughter, 2010, p. 184). This above statement supports maintaining the transitional process as a standard of care for transgender individuals.

Since the 1980s, the United States prison population has quadrupled to 2.4 million inmates; with nearly half of the inmates in federal prison serving time for drug offenses. The majority of America’s general population has been hoodwinked into believing that the prison system helps prevent crime, but the side effects of mass incarceration is like spilling gasoline on a burning car. The side effects of fabricating additional prison complexes for the sole purpose of preventing crime will continue to deem societies ignorance towards our broken prison system. The United States’ prison system is a warehousing institution that is vastly expensive to society and degrading to humanity; oppressive that neither rehabilitates nor protects our society. With the collaborative focus the general population, policy makers and design & construction teams set on making a change, the design and construction field can help heal those affected by the broken prison system.

The United States prison system incarcerates more people per capita than nearly all European countries, and roughly two-thirds of those inmates that are released will be arrested again within three years (Ward et al, 2015). Some facilities have relatively successful programs that cut down on the recidivism numbers. However, the majority of prisons are focused on punishment and make no efforts at rehabilitation. Something in the American justice systems needs to change so that the cycle can be broken. To accomplish this, we can look at the justice system of other countries and try to determine whether such systems would work in the United States.

In order to reduce the risk of harm, many prisons have elected to put their transgender inmates into segregation, to keep them away for the general population (Smith, 2012). Administrative segregation is often used the most when housing transgender inmates. This form of segregation is very similar to solitary confinement, meaning that inmates are put in a single cell and left alone for hours at a time (Simopoulos & Khin Khin, 2014). When put into administrative segregation, the inmate often loses various opportunities such as being able to work, having visitation hours, exercise, specified treatment, and other activities (Smith, 2012). It is not unusual for the segregation cells to be less then desirable. Most times they dirty, unkempt and sometime even

This article is about the war on transgender women in US immigration Detention centers. These women are immigrants that are seeking refuge in the United States from their home town as immigrants, because of the torture, sexual violence, and other forms of abuse because of their gender identity. They are to be held in these detention centers awaiting asylum to the United States or they will be deported back if they fail to pass violation cases. Since the United States does not formally have a transgender detention center, these transgendered women are being put into holding cells with men. During this time the men will physically, verbally, and sexually assault them. The caretakers of these women in the detention centers also fall victim to treating them wrong and denying medical care to those who ask of it. HIV-related care and hormone replacement are two of the many medical necessities that these women are turned down from. These women are also for more prone to being put into

Prison, a place in which many of us fear. Our nation has came a long way with punishment for unlawful acts. We slightly drifted away from the death penalty and focused mostly upon prisons. It provides a great opportunity for inmates to reconstruct their life and prevent their further corruptive behavior.

Blight, Jake. 2006. “Transgender Inmates.” Trends and issues: crime and criminology 16 (8): 1-6. Accessed April 16, 2016. http://aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/tandi_pdf/tandi168.pdf

If a transgender person is sentenced to prison, then it is decided by the state which prison they are sent to. Afterwards if the convicted felon argues about their sentence then the U.S Department of Justice decides if there is a special circumstance and if they should be moved to a different prison. But usually that person will go to the prison based on the sexuality they were born with even if they are transgender. This is beyond unfair to transgenders that had begun transitioning. Regardless if the transgender prisoner is taking hormones and already have features of the opposite sex they will be put in a prison of their original gender. “The only distinguishing characteristic remaining was the fact that Johnson had not yet had sex reassignment surgery and therefore still possessed male genitalia. Because of this fact, Johnson was sent to a male institution to serve the incarceration period,” (Kuchinkski, 2015, p.44). This is unsafe for the men who are transitioning to women physically and mentally because they can look like a woman with breast but be assigned to a male prison. Those men have a large chance of being taken advantage of and being physically abused. The solution to this in some prisons are to completely isolate the transgender prisoners by putting them in solitary

The discrimination of minorities are not only on our streets but in the very cells that hold our prisoners . Everyday inmates of either a different race, ethnicity, religious or sexuality are being discriminated by fellow inmates or even guards. “16% of responded in the national transgender discrimination survey who had been in jail or prison reported being physically and sexually assaulted”

Transgender and transsexual rights campaigns champion the rights of individuals to identify as a gender opposite to, or (sometimes, but not always) more broadly “other than,” that which they were assigned at birth. Some movements for intersex and trans rights even reject assignment at birth altogether as inadequate for classifying their sex or their future gender identity. Both camps raise questions challenging the interconnectedness of gender and biological sex, but some of the ways in which trans and intersex individuals pursue civil rights are markedly different. Leslie Feinberg, author of Trans Liberation, defends the right to express and identify as whatever gender one wishes, regardless of sex assigned at birth, without fear of persecution. Intersex people also argue for acceptance of a “body-gender disconnect” (relative to hegemonic ideals) but with the important detail that their bodies never could have fit on a binary to begin with. But, as discussed in Giving Sex by Davis et al., when trans people seek the right to immediate and unencumbered medical intervention with their sex, in order for ethics and insurance to allow for it, they and their physicians must make the argument that such a body-gender disconnect is a medical emergency, while intersex people instead seek the right to not have their sex surgically altered and for medical professionals to not view their intersexuality as a medical – or social – emergency.