Massachetts Parole Board Grants Parole to Openly Gay Inmate After New Hearg | Columbia Law School

Contents:

• NY DEFEATS GAY PAROLE OFFICER’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN BIAS APPEAL
• MASSACHETTS PAROLE BOARD GRANTS PAROLE TO OPENLY GAY INMATE AFTER NEW HEARG
• BTAL GAY BASHER WHO WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE JT GOT REMEND FOR PAROLE

NY DEFEATS GAY PAROLE OFFICER’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN BIAS APPEAL

The LGBTQ+ populatn is prised of people wh non-heterosexual inti—those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, and others—and people wh non-cisgenr inti—those who are trans and genr non-nformg.

Approximately 124, 000 adults self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual U.

The data is clear: lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ 1) people are overreprented at every stage of crimal jtice system, startg wh juvenile jtice system volvement. (Namely, we provi the only natnal timat for lbian, gay, or bisexual arrt rat and muny supervisn rat that we know of.

MASSACHETTS PAROLE BOARD GRANTS PAROLE TO OPENLY GAY INMATE AFTER NEW HEARG

Rearchers timate that 20% of youth the juvenile jtice system are lbian, gay, bisexual, qutng, genr nonnformg, or transgenr pared wh 4-6% of youth the general populatn. Lbian, gay, and bisexual adults the crimal jtice system. Our analysis of data om the Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health (NSDUH) reveals that 2019, gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals (wh an arrt rate of 3, 620 per 100, 000) were 2.

Meanwhile, gay and bisexual men are 1. Gay, lbian, and bisexual people are also overreprented prisons and jails, pecially lbian and bisexual women. Rearchers analyzg the most recent Natnal Inmate Survey found that LGB people are rcerated at a rate over three tim that of the total adult populatn: 1, 882 per 100, 000 lbian, gay, and bisexual people are rcerated, pared wh 612 per 100, 000 U.

BTAL GAY BASHER WHO WAS SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE JT GOT REMEND FOR PAROLE

4% of women intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual:. 5%) men prison intify as gay or bisexual and an addnal 3.