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.

  • MOARbid1@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    Easy to talk shit while sitting in another country. These same types of monsters are working to take Canada as well. If they do, I’ll make sure to post a snarky lil comment about it while you’re struggling.

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      4 hours ago

      This is my favorite kind of MAGA-level defensive bullshit comment.

      We tell you repeatedly what is going to happen if you keep letting your kid run around playing with matches and are met with literal decades of belligerent, shitty “mind your own business! USA! USA!” responses- and now that your house is ablaze and we’re telling you to PUT IT THE FUCK OUT, your very smart and good response is “lol shut up, the fire is going to spread to your house too.”

      People like you are why the US is fucked.

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        3 hours ago

        I’m about the furthest from MAGA as you can get. But if lumping me together with them makes it easier for you, then go ahead i guess. It’s really difficult to entertain more than one point of view at a time, after all…