LGBTQ
- Most transgender people in state prisons are people of color (Created: 2022)
- Most transgender people in state prisons don't identify as straight (Created: 2022)
- Early experiences of homelessness and poverty among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- Criminal justice involvement began in youth for many trans people in state prison (Created: 2022)
- Educational attainment among the 29 transgender respondents (Created: 2022)
- LGBTQ+ youth are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are much more likely to be arrested than straight people (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented in prisons and local jails (Created: 2021)
- In prison, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other non-straight people are sexually victimized at much higher rates than straight people (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian and bisexual women are overrepresented on probation and parole (Created: 2021)
- Gay and bisexual men are overrepresented on probation and parole (Created: 2021)
- BIPOC transgender people are disproportionately harassed by police (Created: 2021)
- BIPOC transgender people have especially high lifetime rates of incarceration (Created: 2021)
- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are incarcerated at three times the rate of straight people (Created: 2021)
- Racial disparities in LGBTQ youth homelessness and juvenile justice system confinement (Created: 2019)
- Incarceration and HIV infection disparities for Black men (Created: 2017)
Events
- October 27, 2026:
On October 27, 2026 at 1:30 p.m. EST, join the Prison Policy Initiative for a webinar focused on making public records requests. We’ll cover the basics of making a request and provide tips and tricks we’ve learned over decades of sending requests to jails, prisons, and other agencies that can make your requests more effective.
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