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Joseph Benza III, 36, admitted to an incident in February 2023 where he followed a transgender man in his car for nearly two miles before brutally attacking him.
Randall Robert Berka II, 31, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison for a comment he made on his YouTube account called "@killthefeds420."
He ruled that the Trump administration’s policy likely violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
It’s cruel and unusual punishment, advocates and at least one federal judge have said.
Anderson Lee Aldrich pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for federal hate crimes and firearms charges for the mass shooting that left five people dead and around 20 injured.
There will now be an LGBT rep in the diversity program at every federal prison.
Former Florida Rep. Joe Harding will serve four months in federal prison.
James B. Sajdak accepted a plea deal and faces a maximum one-year federal prison sentence for the 2019 incident after facing up to life in prison.
Daniel Jenkins, one of four men who pleaded guilty to crimes against gay men they met through Grindr, was sentenced to 23 years and four months in federal prison.
Joe Exotic has seemingly withdrawn himself from the race for president without a word.
Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
The Department of Justice has intervened on Georgia trans woman Ashley Diamond's behalf, declaring state prison's continued denial of her hormone therapy a violation of her Eighth Amendment rights.
Some effects of the order are yet to be known, but most of its impacts will be negative, the Williams Institute reports.
A Maryland judge ruled that transgender woman Sandy Brown's rights were violated by jail officials who locked her in solitary confinement for 66 days and sexually harassed her.
Despite federal help in her health discrimination claim, Diamond has continued to face sexual abuse while imprisoned, including at least seven alleged rapes.
