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                                    LGBTI Persons In Custody and Under Supervision

      

                    
          
    LGBTI Persons in Custody and Under Supervision
This webpage has been developed in an effort to provide current and useful information to correctional agencies regarding the safe and respectful management of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons in custody and under supervision. Relying on a best practices approach, this information will enable correctional and supervising staff to make better decisions about the safety, security, treatment, and care of LGBTQI persons by providing academic, cultural, and legal perspectives of the issues that make this group unique.

Changes in federal and state legislation, court decisions, settlement agreements, and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) standards are important factors in the management of LGBTI persons and should be carefully reviewed in consideration of policy development.

Agencies wishing to participate in training and/or examine and improve their response to the management of LGBTI persons may apply for limited, short-term technical assistance to aid their efforts.

Please visit our LGBTI Policy Review and Development Guide microsite to continue researching this topic.

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          FACT SHEET: The Biden-⁠Harris Administration Champions LGBTQ+ Equality and Marks Pride Month
          NIC Glossary of Transgender Terms
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          LGBTI Medical & Mental Health
          LGBTQI Juveniles
          LGBTI Persons in Custody and Under Supervision

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          Transgender Persons In Custody: The Legal Landscape
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LGBTI Populations: Intake - Creating a Culture of Safety [Internet Broadcast]

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LGBTI Populations: Their Safety, Your Responsibility [Internet Broadcast]

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          LGBTI Policy Review and Development Guide

Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings, 2nd Edition is the work product of many organizations and individuals concerned about preventing and addressing the abuse of LGBTI adults and youth in custody. It addresses rapidly developing areas of practice and law in the

Learn more about developing LGBTI policies

Topic Categories and Resources
The following grey bars are accordions that can be expanded to show a list of "top-shelf" resources that have been hand-picked by our library team around this topic. If you would like additional research assistance on this topic, please contact our help desk. They have access to specialized databases and thousands of resources you won't find online. Click on a grey box below to browse resources in that section.
            
      Accordion    Court Cases & Legislation
      
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Know Your Rights: Laws, Court Decisions, and Advocacy Tips to Protect Transgender Prisoners

            
      
"This guide identifies laws, court decisions, advocacy tips, and other resources that may be helpful for adult transgender prisoners. Each transgender person’s experience in prison and jail is different, in part because the conditions vary a great deal from one prison to another and change over time

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      The Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act (SB-132) (2020)
              Transsexual Prisoners (2018)
              Jessica Hicklin V. Anne Precynthe et. al. (2018)
              Transgender inmate to get $80,000 (2015)
              Transgender inmate is first to be awarded individual compensation under Prison Rape Elimination Act (2015)
              State of CA and Transgender Law Center reach historic settlement over trans prisoner health care (2015)
              MICHELLE-LAEL B. NORSWORTHY, Plaintiff, v. JEFFREY BEARD, et al. (2015)
              Kosilek v. Spencer - Sex Reassignment Surgery in Prison (2014)
              DAVID H. PICKUP, et. al. vs. EDMUND G. BROWN, JR., Governor of California (2013)
              Federal appeals court reinstates prisoner’s sex-change lawsuit (2013)
              Patti Hammon Shaw, Plaintiff, v. District of Columbia, et.al. (2011)
              Federal Judge Strikes State-Law Ban on Hormone Treatment for Transgendered Inmates (2010)
              Brandon vs. County of Richardson, Texas (1997)
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      A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Youth Confinement Facilities

            
      
“This Quick Guide will help agencies and facilities develop a comprehensive response to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) youth. It is not meant to provide an answer to every question or an in-depth discussion of all issues that agencies face or that the LGBTI
              The Legal Rights of Young People in State Custody: What Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Professionals Need to Know When Working with LGBT Youth

            
      
The legal rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) youth are discussed through the use of scenarios that show professionals in child welfare and juvenile justice what they may experience working with this population. This paper is divided into four parts: the Constitutional right to
              Desktop Guide to Quality Practice for Working with Youth in Confinement

            
      
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            Recent successful juvenile justice and juvenile detention reforms have resulted in better and more meaningful public policy on the use of custody facilities and have triggered significant reductions in juvenile detention and corrections populations. However, a secondary-and perhaps unintended
  
      Nurse’s Guide to Caring for LGBTQ+ Youth (2022)
              Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform: LGBTQ Youth in the System (2011)
              Emerging Best Practices for the Management and Treatment of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Intersex Youth in Juvenile Justice Settings (...
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      Lambda Legal
              Transgender Law Center (TLC)
              Library of Congress: LGBTQ+ Legal Resources: A Beginner’s Guide (2020)
              LGBTQ PEOPLE BEHIND BARS A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING THE ISSUES FACING TRANSGENDER PRISONERS AND THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS (2018)
              Representing Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients (2015)
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      Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings, 2nd Edition

            
      
"In the first edition of this guide, we aimed to reach out to correctional agencies in order to help them identify, address, and respond to abuse of LGBTI individuals through agency policies and procedures. We hoped to deepen the dialogue between staff and administrators as well as community leaders
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An LASD Guide: Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Employees

            
      
"This publication sets forth guidelines to address the needs of transgender and gender non-conforming employees and clarifies how the law should be implemented in situations where questions may arise about how to protect the legal rights or safety of all employees. These guidelines do not anticipate

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              Respectful Classification Practices with LGBTI Inmates [Lesson Plans]

            
      
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            "Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex (LGBTI) and gender non-conforming inmates represent particularly vulnerable populations with unique medical, safety, and other needs. Though some of the concerns and vulnerabilities faced by these populations are similar, transgender and gender non
              Tribal Equity Toolkit 2.0: Tribal Resolutions and Codes to Support Two Spirit & LGBT Justice in Indian Country

            
      
“Tribal laws reflect our values as a people, define our collective barriers, prioritize our issues, allocate public resources, and identify eligibility for conferred status and public benefits and services. This Toolkit identifies areas in which existing tribal laws may discriminate against Two
              Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex, (L.G.B.T.I.) Training Program and Agency Policy

            
      
This collection is comprised of a training program and an agency policy regarding the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex inmates. "Course Name: L.G.B.T. Awareness" by B. Galindez. "Cultural Diversity/Awareness is essential in terms of adapting to changes and the morphing
              A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Adult Prisons and Jails

            
      
“This Quick Guide will help agencies and facilities develop a comprehensive response to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inmates. It is not meant to provide an answer to every question or an in-depth discussion of all issues that agencies face or that the LGBTI
  
      POLICIES TO INCREASE SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR TRANSGENDER PRISONERS (2018)
              The dismal state of transgender incarceration policies (2017)
              Interactions with Transgender, Intersex, and Gender Nonconforming (TIGN) Individuals (2015)
              Further Guidance Regarding the Care of Transgender Detainees (2015)
              Ohio LGBTI Policy (2018)
              Cross-Hormone Therapy Transsexual/Intersex Patients (2015)
              Advances in Juvenile Justice Reform: LGBTQ Youth in the System (2011)
              Transgender Inmates Policy (2009)
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LGBTI Populations: Their Safety, Your Responsibility [Internet Broadcast]

            
      
Correctional agencies face many challenges surrounding the safe management of the populations they house and supervise.
      
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LGBTI Populations: Intake - Creating a Culture of Safety [Internet Broadcast]

            
      
Good correctional practice includes applying principles of risk based classification to all adult and juvenile offenders while accounting for unique characteristics and concerns of LGBTI and gender non-conforming populations.
      
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              A Roadmap for Change: Federal Policy Recommendations for Addressing the Criminalization of LGBT People and People Living with HIV

            
      
"This document outlines a range of policy solutions that would go a long way towards addressing discriminatory and abusive policing practices, improving conditions for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender] prisoners and immigrants in detention, de-criminalizing HIV, and preventing LGBT
              Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings, 2nd Edition

            
      
"In the first edition of this guide, we aimed to reach out to correctional agencies in order to help them identify, address, and respond to abuse of LGBTI individuals through agency policies and procedures. We hoped to deepen the dialogue between staff and administrators as well as community leaders
              A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Adult Prisons and Jails

            
      
“This Quick Guide will help agencies and facilities develop a comprehensive response to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) inmates. It is not meant to provide an answer to every question or an in-depth discussion of all issues that agencies face or that the LGBTI
              A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Youth Confinement Facilities

            
      
“This Quick Guide will help agencies and facilities develop a comprehensive response to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) youth. It is not meant to provide an answer to every question or an in-depth discussion of all issues that agencies face or that the LGBTI
              LGBTI: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custody (Selected Resources for Criminal Justice Professionals) Annotated Bibliography

            
      
“This annotated bibliography has been developed in an effort to provide current and useful information to correctional agencies regarding the safe and respectful management of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons in custody. Relying on a best practices approach, this
  
      An (updated) LGBTQ+ friendly survey template (2022)
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      Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health
              U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Health & Well-being for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Americans
              World Professional Association for Transgender Health
              Administration for Children's Services: LGBTQ Support
              National PREA Resource Center: Research Library: LGBTI
              The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA)
              National Center for Transgender Equality
              Just Detention International
              American Psychological Association: Transgender People, Gender Identity and Gender Expression
              Accordion    Research
      
      Risk Markers for Sexual Predation and Victimization in Prison

            
      
This study investigated the application of “empirically validated static and dynamic risk ma[r]kers for violence in the community to sexual predation and victimization in prisons” (p.2). Twelve chapters follow and abstract and executive summary: an introduction to the Prison Rape Elimination Act
  
      Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavioral Health: Results from the 2021 and 2022 National Surveys on Drug Use and Health (2023)
              Violent Victimization by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2017–2020 (2022)
              U.S. Transgender Survey (USTS) (2015)
              Standing With LGBT Prisoners: An Advocate’s Guide to Ending Abuse and Combating Imprisonment (2014)

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