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.
Goddammit they so fucking evil and we have no one to stop them.
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.
can we use force?
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)
We did but they missed.
Fuck this whole administration. Fucking disgusting.
I’m not American, but that violates the “cruel and unusual punishment” part of the constitution, no?
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…
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)
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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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.
W?
Expected nothing less from a child rapist.
And a cock sucker himself
And the Project2025 agenda takes yet another step towards their dream goal of a theocratic dictatorship.
I keep hoping that the people will come to their senses at some point. But I suspect that this is just what America is. I’ve never in my lifetime been more ashamed to be an American.
Just a WILD thought…… how about everyone has rape protections?
Ironically, W is the one that signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act. I remember talking to conservatives that thought W was speaking some kind of foreign language.
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
I wonder when Donvict issues executive order to reverse W’s PREA.
hopefully nobody reminds them because I’m confident these people think prison rape is the entire point of prisons
Oh, for sure. I grew up in a deeply red part of the country, and if you don’t already know, I assure you that there are many conservatives that think rape is, and should be, part of the “correctional” prison complex. That if you commit a crime, even something relatively minor, if you don’t go to get prison and get raped, well, then, they personally feel you cheated or that the system isn’t working quite properly. Because prison is supposed to be punishment, and obviously, that means rape, I guess. And other forms of violence.
Again, that’s for male cishet prisoners. Unless you are “manly” enough to avoid it, I guess. Anyone else - they deserve it.
I’m quite sure that for trans/intersex their thoughts are even more horrible.
Seems like a feature of American prisons. Never see articles about European prisons having problems with rape.
Do we have another bloodthirsty republican who’s itching to shoot someone in office again?
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’.
something something revolution in minecraft
something something not illegal to say with a mortar launcher
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
Goddamn, we’re all fucking corruptable for a price, aren’t we?
Can one of you guys just go do the thing already
Somebody is closer than anyone else to the guy and could do the thing. We just need that person to realize it.
“Americans allow Trump DoJ to immediately stop enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people”
Fixed
They’ll have another No Kings march in a few months. That should do it.
But it’ll be on Saturday and that’s when oligarchs housewives is on tv.
You mean the cute little parade, right?
Only if the weather’s nice. And if they get all their permits beforehand.
I’ve been told asking anything more from people is too much because they have families and jobs. I get the feeling they’re not looking further ahead to where the fascism and blatant disregard for human rights affects them. Every day it creeps closer.
Right, because no one in history who ever put themselves at risk had a job, family, dreams, hopes, or anything to lose. Americans’ heroes, in their eyes, were all just superhuman Disney characters who never really were in danger of losing anything and whose victory was guaranteed.
That is unironically half the problem. We have a totally mythologies view of our own history that has made us damn near incapable of repeating it
Ah yes, blame the people not in charge just like the ruling class likes.
Given your constitution it is absolutely the peoples’ fault that the ruling class exists.
I am pretty sure you mean that we exist because of the ruling class. The American Revolution wasn’t really a popular uprising. It was a bunch of wealthy people seizing power through propaganda and terrorism.
There was never the “people” as you put it. It was a country by the rich for the rich with a nice helping of liberal propaganda the placate the masses.
You are armed to the teeth.
Cowardice or disinterest are your only excuses.
Blah blah. You can’t change something if you don’t understand it.
Welcome to fascism.
I hope that Jill Stein vote sticks in your larynx.
I don’t agree with that strategy either, but she didn’t carry enough votes to have made the difference anyway…
Blame the non-voters for supporting this not the voters that didn’t vote for this.
Voting for a candidate that can’t win is worse than not voting. Third-parties actively harmed the process and used resources that could have been spent preventing this bullshit.
We live in a 2-party system. If you aren’t happy with the Dems, make that displeasure known in the primaries, then vote against the fascists in the general election no matter what. It’s not that fucking complicated.
I’ll blame both. Tossing away a vote on a guaranteed loser candidate is the exact same as stepping aside and allowing fascism free rein.
People vote 3rd party to be able to smugly claim they voted while pretending to not be part of what caused the issue.
I’ll say it clearly so it’s easier understood:
WHERE YOU ASSUMED YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT- YOU WERE BEING ASKED TO VOTE AGAINST FASCISM.
I seriously don’t know how this was so difficult that over 4 million people couldn’t figure it out
According to the electoral college, every state either voted 100% for trump or harris. So no one voted for Jil Stein. And if you’re in a red state, NO ONE VOTED FOR HARRIS EITHER, and vice versa. Stop purposely being stupid of this fact.
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.
Genuinely horrific <3
