Over the last year, the DOC has changed some of its policy to address concerns of the transgender prisoner community but many problems still exist.
Jeffrey Young
Jeffery Young is a writer and inmate at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater.
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Stillwater policy enables prisoner ‘fight clubs’
‘The idea that it’s prisoners’ responsibility to alert staff about prisoners living in the cell block together after fighting each other is ridiculous.’
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Children need time with their incarcerated fathers
Current policy discriminates based on gender Jhana is an eighth grader aspiring to become a dolphin trainer. She admits that in preparation to become a dolphin trainer, she has flushed goldfish down the toilet on several occasions after finding it floating at the top of her fish tank. But if anyone were to question her […]
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An update concerning overcrowding in Rush City Prison
In my last column, “Overcrowding in Rush City Prison creates a risk to the public” (MSR, Mar. 24, 2016), I wrote about the overcrowding and double bunking in a prison originally designed for single occupancy in each cell.