Incarcerated Trans Women Won Sweeping Prison Reforms in Colorado. It Could Be a Model for Other States
The state signed a legal agreement meant to make prisons safer for transgender women, who are often the targets of violence and harassment.
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The state signed a legal agreement meant to make prisons safer for transgender women, who are often the targets of violence and harassment.
Colorado will pioneer a new approach to housing transgender women in prison that experts say could become a model for other states. The move is part of a legal settlement in a case brought by 400 tran...
The move is part of a legal settlement in a case brought by 400 trans women who are or have been in the state’s prisons.
An attorney on the case said the upcoming changes should become
Historic legal settlement, a consent decree, would establish two new voluntary housing units for incarcerated trans women in Colorado's prisons.