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Even With Legal Help, Transgender Prisoners Are Never Safe in Prisonnew
Rape in prison has been all too real for Samantha Hill. Over the years, she says, she’s been sexually assaulted numerous times, despite her persistent requests for protection
Tags: transgender in prison
Coming Out To Americanew
Immigrants seeking asylum in the United States don't come here solely in search of the American Dream. Some gay immigrants can't go home again.
Tags: Immigration, Asylum
Disappearing Actnew
The men who are caught transporting illegal immigrants rarely pay the price.
Westword |
Melanie Asmar |
11-12-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Immigration, Jose Chacón-Posada
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Even With Legal Help, Transgender Prisoners Are Never Safe in Prisonnew
Rape in prison has been all too real for Samantha Hill. Over the years, she says, she’s been sexually assaulted numerous times, despite her persistent requests for protection
Tags: transgender in prison
Can Colorado's Prisons Reform?new
After the murder of Tom Clements, can Colorado's prison system rehabilitate itself?
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
08-26-2014 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Colorado Prisons, Tom Clements
Will Juvenile Lifers Get a Second Chance?new
They're a tribe within a tribe, aging cons whose adolescent crimes have been deemed so unredeemable that they are condemned to die behind bars, with no hope of release. But hope is hard to kill, even among convicted killers.
Westword |
Alan Prendergast |
11-30-2012 |
Crime & Justice
