Project on Addressing Prison Rape

Missouri

  1. Policy: Missouri Department of Corrections Department Procedural Manual D1.8.13
  2. Language:
    1.  Housing assignments for transgender or intersex offenders shall not be made based solely on genitalia but must consider the offender’s health and safety and the security of the facility through a review of the respective classification, medical and mental health records.
    2. The transgender or intersex offender’s own views with respect to his safety shall be given serious consideration when determining housing.
    3. Transgender or intersex offenders shall be offered the opportunity to shower separately from other offenders.

“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