"March 2016"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Adam Frankel, coordinator in the LGBT Rights Program at Human Rights Watch"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Annexes I-IV. Monserrath's Story -- Summary -- Methodology -- Background: To Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- Mandatory Custody -- Immigration Detention under Obama -- Transgender Immigrant Detention under Obama -- Human Rights Abuses against Transgender Women in the US -- Transgender Women and the Call for Alternatives to Detention -- I.Sexual Assault of Transgender Women in Men's Detention Facilities -- II.Abuse and Ill-Treatment in Segregated Detention: Strip Searches by Male Guards -- III. Lockdowns and Solitary Confinement: Lockdowns and Solitary Confinement at Santa Ana -- IV. Medical and Mental Health Care: Access to HIV Medication and HIV-Related Care -- Access to Gender-Affirming Care -- Access to Routine and Emergency Medical Care -- V. Alternatives to Detention -- VI.US Law and International Human Rights Obligations: Immigration Detention -- Solitary Confinement -- Sexual Assault and Degrading and Humiliating Treatment -- Medical Care -- Recommendations: To the United States Congress -- To the Department of Homeland Security -- To Immigration and Customs Enforcement -- Acknowledgments -- Annexes I-IV.
Summary:
"The report, 'Do You See How Much I'm Suffering Here?': Abuse against Transgender Women in US Immigration Detention,' documents 28 cases of transgender women who were held in US immigration detention between 2011 and 2015. More than half of the transgender women Human Rights Watch interviewed were held in mens facilities at some point. Half also spent time in solitary confinement, in many cases allegedly for their protection. But solitary confinement is a form of abuse in and of itself, and many who had spent time there experienced trauma and profound psychological distress"--Publisher's description.
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