Project on Addressing Prison Rape

State Policy

  1. The Project Addressing Prison Rape could not locate state-specific policies on housing transgender inmates. If you have access to this state-specific language, please email endsilence@wcl.american.edu.

Local Policy

  1. Policy: Cook County Administration Policy 125: Transgender and Intersex Subjects
  2. Language:
    1. In deciding the housing assignment of a transgender or intersex subject, the committee shall consider the following:
      1. Whether to place the subject in male or female housing;
      2. Whether a placement will ensure the subject’s health and safety; and
      3. Whether a placement will present significant management, security or clinical challenges.
    2. A transgender or intersex subject shall not be housed separately (e.g., protective custody, administrative segregation) from other members of the jail population solely based on his/her status as transgender or intersex, nor shall such a subject be isolated as part of a group from other subjects solely based on his/her status.
 

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky
American University Washington College of Law, Project Addressing Prison Rape