On March 26, 2026, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will be investigating prisons in California and Maine to determine whether housing transgender women in women’s prisons violates the Constitution. According to the DOJ, there are concerns that prisons that house transgender women violate cisgender women’s constitutional rights, such as the First Amendment, […]
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Inside San Quentin: The Transformative Power of Education and Rehabilitation
This summer, I worked at a small non-profit organization called Humans of San Quentin, whose primary aim is to humanize incarcerated people through personal narratives and other creative contributions. I not only read about the lives and experiences of countless people in prison, but also talked to them on the phone and asked questions that […]