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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 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.