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DOJ halts use of LGBTQ safety standards in federal prison audits

The Department of Justice has directed Prison Rape Elimination Act auditors to stop applying standards created to safeguard transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual assault during confinement. The instruction appears in an internal memo obtained by NPR, which says the department is rewriting federal PREA regulations to align with President Trump’s executive order on […]

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