As Pride Month highlights the ongoing fight for LGBTQ+ rights, transgender people in prison continue to face denials of medically necessary care despite court orders protecting access.

Dee Farmer sees great risk if the federal government succeeds in its efforts to end critical health care for incarcerated people with gender-affirming care needs. “People will die,” Farmer told the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera), she herself a formerly incarcerated transgender woman who has been fighting for the rights of people in prison for dec ...

By allowing the Trump administration to end protections for people from Haiti and Syria, the Supreme Court exposed more than a million TPS holders to deportation. Congress should now create lasting pathways to legal residency.

Today, the United States Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to hundreds of thousands of immigrant families by ruling that Haitians and Syrians are not protected from deportation while the litigation challenging the Trump administration’s termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) unfolds. The Court also found that the plaintiffs were unlik ...

Millions of incarcerated people remain trapped by the 13th Amendment’s exception clause. But recent wins in California and Colorado show how states can lead the way to ending prison slavery.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday, and the 161st anniversary of the event it commemorates: General Order No. 3, which Union General Gordon Granger delivered to Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, bearing the belated news that “all slaves are free” following the January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. By ...