The Supreme Court may be about to make America’s prisons much crueler
On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to “ensure that no Federal funds are expended for any medical procedure, treatment, or drug for the purpose of conforming an inmate’s appearance to that of the opposite sex.” Issued alongside a record 26 other […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day of his second term, prohibiting federal funds from being used for medical procedures, treatments, or drugs intended to change an inmate's appearance to the opposite sex. This order was among 26 other executive orders issued that day, reflecting Trump's campaign focus on this issue. The Supreme Court now faces the case of Trump v. Kingdom, which will determine the fate of this executive order and the BOP's memos implementing it.
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