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LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
19 Oct 2020
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Margaret Kimberley · LGBTQ Newsletter Surveys Prison Conditions

The newsletter for the prison abolition organization Black and Pink sent out a 133-page questionnaire to incarcerated LGBTQ persons, earlier this year, so that “we can laser beam solutions to the needs of these individuals,” said organizer Fatima Shabazz, a trans woman. Among the findings of the questionnaire: 85 percent of respondents have spent time in solitary confinement, half of them for two years or more. Black and Pink claims 20,000 members in 13 chapters around the country.

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