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Settlement of NJ Civil Rights Suit Promises Necessary Reform Affirming Transgender, Intersex, and Non-Binary People in Prison

TRENTON ­­– New Jersey agreed to adopt major policy reforms regarding transgender, intersex, and non-binary people in state prisons, the result of an agreement settling a civil rights suit brought by a woman who was forced to live in men’s prisons for a year and a half.

June 29, 2021 Discrimination LGBTQ+ Rights Prisons & Jails Gender, Sexuality & Reproductive Freedom