Advocates Call on City to Protect Transgender People Behind Bars in the Trump Era

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Citing the Trump DOJ cuts and executive orders, Michele Deitch, director of the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, urged state lawmakers throughout the country to take action. 

“As these critical vehicles for federal oversight of prisons and jails fall, there has never been a more urgent time to push for stronger oversight at the state level.”

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