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‘Fear for Their Lives’: Trans Women Federal Prisoners Told They Will Be Housed With Men

A small change in a judge’s order appears to have led the Trump administration to start arrangements to transfer more than a dozen transgender women.

News • 02.21.2025

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St. Louis • 02.11.2025

‘Nobody’s Trying to Help Him’: Deaths in Cuyahoga County Jail Intensify Scrutiny

Videos depicting two men’s final moments, and the response by guards, raise alarms at the embattled jail where at least 24 people have died since 2018.

Cleveland • 01.23.2025

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