"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 youth from coming in contact with the system in the first place " (p. 6).
Sections contained in this report include:
- introduction and summary;
- policing and law enforcement;
- prisons-discrimination and violence inside prions and related facilities,
- health and nutrition,
- access to programming,
- and placement within prison facilities;
- immigration;
- criminalization of youth; criminalization of HIV;
- and drivers of incarceration-drug policy,
- collateral consequences of criminalization and incarceration,
- criminalization of poverty and homelessness,
- lack of access to ID and social services for transgender people,
- and criminalization of sex work and responses to trafficking in persons.