At San Quentin State Prison in California, LGBTQ prisoners and once-biased inmates try to heal together. - NBCOUT
to how to respect intersex people. Their goal is simple: heal together and work toward a better world for LGBTQ people.
That’s because in most prisons across the nation, transgender inmates are housed according to their birth sex, despite federal requirements in the Prison Rape Elimination Act that inmates be housed on a case-by-case basis.San Quentin is California’s oldest prison, built in 1851 by prisoners at the edge of the San Francisco Bay in Marin County. The views from the entrance are so heavenly it is often remarked that it’s astonishing the prison has not been flattened and divided up for real estate.
found that transgender people were nine times more likely than the general prison population to be sexually assaulted by other inmates.It was due to that hostility that trans women approached the Insight Prison Project in 2015, where Billie Mizell was then serving as executive director. Inmates asked Mizell to support the formation of an LGBTQ education program at San Quentin. They didn’t want a support group.
Billie Mizell leads San Quentin State Prison's Acting With Compassion and Truth group, a restorative justice program.This year, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation allowed her to replicate the program on San Quentin’s death row, which remains intact despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s. That group, comprised of five people, meets Tuesdays. It is not open to reporters.
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