PGP Recommended Reading: Pride Month

In celebration and recognition of Pride Month, we encourage you to learn more about how the criminal legal system impacts the LGBTQIA+ community in different and disparate ways. People who identify as LGBTQIA+ are disproportionately incarcerated, but discussions of why they are overrepresented in correctional facilities, criminalization of this community, their pathways to incarceration, and the violence they can experience while inside are not frequently explored. The PGP team has compiled a list of books, reports, articles, and additional resources to guide your learning on this topic.

• Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock

• The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, Hugh Ryan
  Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Andrea Ritchie 

• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith

• The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons, Kristin Schreier Lyseggen

• “The Forgotten Ones: Queer and Trans Lives in the Prison System,” The New Yorker 

• “Hidden Injustice: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth in Juvenile Courts,” National Juvenile Defender Center, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Legal Services for Children 

• “LGBTQ People Behind Bars: A Guide to Understanding the Issues Facing Transgender Prisoners and Their Legal Rights,” National Center for Transgender Equality

• “Minnesota recognizes she’s a woman. She’s locked in a men’s prison anyway,” NPR