Report raises concerns about solitary detention for gay, transgender immigrants

Sacramento Bee ^ | November 27, 2013 | By Jayna Omaye

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Many gay, lesbian and transgender immigrants held in U.S. detention centers, who may be vulnerable to abuse by guards and other detainees, are placed in solitary confinement to protect them, but the isolation can cause psychological problems, according to a new report by the left-leaning Center for American Progress.

“Solitary confinement is considered a form of torture,” said Sharita Gruberg-Wanker, a policy analyst at the center. “When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does this to prevent people from being sexually assaulted, it puts them at risk of other forms of trauma.”

[Viennacon]

Solitary confinement is now ‘torture’???!! Laughable.

[ToastedHead]

“But I’m gay! I need constant confirmation from other gay people that its not weird.”

[ColdOne]

good fn grief..really?????? this comment is sorta deleted ahead of time to save mods the trouble.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yep, this is a major issue. Quit working on repealing Obamacare, balancing the budget, stopping Iran and North Korea and get going on this problem...

[TurboZamboni]

Maybe the room drapes and carpet don’t match.

OUTWAGEUS!

[Freestate316]

If you’re gay, it might be torture being in ill-fitting, last year’s colors jumpsuits, in a poorly decorated cell.

[Libloather]

How do they prove that they’re gay?

[Venturer]

If they are gay, Lesbian or Transgender, they already have psychological problems. They are mentally ill, send them back to Mexico for treatment

[ought-six]

Just deport them and be done with it.

[Chode]

said Sharita Gruberg-Wanker, ya just can't make this stuff up...

[Fightin Whitey]

said Sharita Gruberg-Wanker, a policy analyst at the center

Well, which is it...is she a wanker or an analist?

[Gator113]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_kwXNVCaxY

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[Fightin Whitey]

Funny you would say that.

I just walked by a TV set with O’Reilly on it and the guest’s name is “Dr. Ablow”.

Any a-blow in my high school would have had to have been one tough hombre lol!

[GraceG]

All American Prisons should be ran like the Japanese prisons

Everyone in a solitary cell, isolated etc...

Not the "Crime U" Criminal University that US Prisons are.

[upchuck]

So now we’re supposed to feel sorry for the queers? Doubt it.

[onyx]

ROTFLOL.