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Coming Out of Concrete Closets: A Report on Black & Pink's National LGBTQ. Prisoner Survey
Black & Pink, October 2015
We Deserve Better: A Report on Policing in New Orleans
Youth BreakOUT!, 2014
In the midst of national attention on police brutality and the mobilization of racial justice activists in the Black Lives Matter movement, these two reports from Black & Pink and BreakOUT! provide us with crucial information regarding the experiences of LGBTQ. people within the prison industrial complex.
Collected from 1,118 survey respondents, Black 8i Pink's report represents the largest ever collection of information from LGBTQ prisoners. In the report, Black 8i Pink-a prison abolitionist organization-lifts up the voices of LGBTQ prisoners from across the United States so they can inform, shape, and lead the movement for prisoner justice.
LGBTQ people, especially people of color and poor people, are more heavily policed than the general population and, once subject to arrest and incarceration, face further violence from both prison staff and other prisoners. The survey expounds on this using both statistics and first-hand accounts. Prior to incarceration, nearly 20 percent of Black 8i Pink's respondents had...