The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT+ prisoners from sexual abuse

The U.S. Department of Justice will "immediately" stop enforcing a swathe of federal regulations protecting trans and intersex prisoners from rape and sexual assault, according to leaked documents.

In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to "immediately pause" all "compliance determinations" for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to "disregard" them.

Those rules include requiring trans and intersex prisoners to be allowed separate showers, banning body searches purely for the purpose of finding out what genitals they have, and requiring prison staff to consider their safety when assigning them to male or female wings.

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[–] 147 points 8 months ago (18 children)

Goddammit they so fucking evil and we have no one to stop them.

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  • [–] 82 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    They’re not going to stop. People like this don’t stop. They don’t stop until forced. Power is the only language they understand.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    and we have no one to stop them

    It's not going to take "one" to stop them.

    It'll take concerted group action.

    Which seems impossible in a country of "rugged individualists" who don't seem to grasp the concept of working together toward a common goal.

    (Don't just downvote me - prove my cynicism wrong)

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    [–] 84 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Fuck this whole administration. Fucking disgusting.

    I'm not American, but that violates the "cruel and unusual punishment" part of the constitution, no?

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There has long been a dark undertow of anti-intellectuals and sick fuckers in this country that I've encountered with all my life that practically celebrate prison rape (of men by other men) because they think it's deserved. For pretty much any crime, they think that is part of the punishment.

    They are sick and broken people, and unfortunately, it is part and parcel of the culture.

    When W came along and proposed doing something about this, I remember having conversations much like I had on the playground, except with supposed functioning adults - they'd give blank stares as if they thought it was anathema to do something about it. They seriously think that rape (and other violence) is something you deserve in prison. Like it didn't even compute for them to have no tolerance for rape of men.

    I'm sure these people think that trans/intersex "deserve" it even more so...

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    People like that think rape is ok, period. They don't believe women about it, either, because they think any "excuse" you give the rapist is valid whether it's wearing a skirt, having a drink, being LGBT+, committing any crime, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, etc.

    They think rape is the right of men. (They likely also believe female perpetrated rape isn't real at all)

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    The ghouls on the supreme court have ruled that to be banned, a punishment must be both cruel and unusual. If it's cruel and common then it's fine for certain types of cruelty. Like solitary confinement lasting weeks, or months, or even years in some cases.

    There are more okay forms of cruelty, and a lot of things that are banned, but fewer banned things than anyone with human empathy would condone.

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    [–] 73 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    If you order and carry out this kind of thing, there is something wrong with your brain.

    Even W had the fucking decency to start initiatives to do something about prison rape, FFS.

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    [–] 62 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Just a WILD thought….. how about everyone has rape protections?

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    [–] 62 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Expected nothing less from a child rapist.

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  • [–] 52 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    These people want everyone raped in prison.

    They’re fundamentally the most evil people to exist and need to be killed before they kill us first

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    [–] 46 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.

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    [–] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    Americans genuinely seem to believe that sexual assault in prison is an engineered intention of the prison system. We also get an earful about how rape is the consequence of inmates assaulting one another with scant acknowledgement of the chronic abuse by prison staff against inmates.

    No real consideration of why the US is uniquely positioned as having some of the most dangerous and deplorable prisons in the world. No real introspection surrounding the real purpose of inmate torture and abuse, or how it facilitates the profiteering off of inmate labor.

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    [–] 24 points 8 months ago (17 children)

    “Americans allow Trump DoJ to immediately stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people”

    Fixed

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    [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    Seems like a feature of American prisons. Never see articles about European prisons having problems with rape.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    In a memo obtained by the non-profit news outlet Prism, DoJ official Tammie M. Gregg told prison auditors across the nation to "immediately pause" all "compliance determinations" for key safety rules concerning LGBTQI+ inmates, and advise prisons to "disregard" them.

    Holy shit, Tammie M Gregg was former director of the National Prison Project for the ACLU. Goddamn.

    Tammie M. Gregg was the Deputy Director for the ACLU’s National Prison Project. Tammie also led the ACLU's Stop Solitary campaign. Tammie came to NPP from a long and distinguished career with the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies. After beginning her career with law firms in Minneapolis and Washington, in 2000 she joined DOJ as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division. From 2003 to 2011 she was a senior attorney in the Special Litigation Section, where she worked on cases involving prisons, jails, and policing. She rose to the level of Principal Deputy Chief of the Section, where she provided day-to-day supervision to a staff of over 70 people.

    What the actual goddamned fuck

    15th National Indian Nations Conference - Opening Remarks - Tammie Gregg

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    [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Do we have another bloodthirsty republican who's itching to shoot someone in office again?

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    now now it is illegal to say that if you're talking about trump, but NOT illegal to say "with a mortar launcher" because that's its own sentence; it's an incomplete sentence that had absolutely nothing to do with what was said before that, so perfectly fine, perfectly legal.

    still illegal to wish death on trump (as president) though, but technically legal to say "we have a group that meets fridays under the brooklyn bridge, we sing sabrina carpenter karaokes after meetings, and the password is 'sic semper tyrannis'".

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    Welcome to fascism.

    I hope that Jill Stein vote sticks in your larynx.

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    [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Can one of you guys just go do the thing already

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Going to Hell is getting off too easy for these people. Jfc. I want to fucking scream at the top of my lungs.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago*

    A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority

    Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes

    How about just making sure that rape doesn't happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It's seriously wild that "don't drop your soap now!" os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    There are zero peaceful resolutions in dealing with the christian menace

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    It's cruelty all the way down.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    I would not have thought a policy position could be objectively described as 'pro-rape', just inarguably, but, well, here we have it.

    Fucking horrifying.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Genuinely horrific <3

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    No surprise coming from a serial rapist dictator

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    we need a revolution. seriously!

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Wait, they can just carve out exceptions for Rape they like?

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