TPI is posting advocacy letters we have written to provide examples of violence against persons in prison, primarily against trans and queer persons in Texas prisons. Personal identifying information has been removed for all incarcerated persons, and named staff or other persons causing harm is removed on a case by case basis.
Content warning: Some of these letters describe threats and incidents of violence that may be disturbing. We will note whether each letter is considered a low, moderate, or high risk for being disturbing. We consider this letter to be low risk.
The person in this letter has identified to TPI as a transgender person and may be a non-binary or queer gender. They were primarily reporting a consistent issue of endangerment to TPI where persons in safekeeping designation were being threatened or harmed by persons in general population due to staff failure to secure the doors leading into the safekeeping housing sections. Sometimes this is done deliberately as a means of mistreating or harassing persons in safekeeping because many people in safekeeping are trans or queer, or have other characteristics that mean they are vulnerable to violence in in general population.