Federal appeals court blocks restrictions on placement of trans women in Oregon prisons

Oregon does not need to presume transgender women should be housed in women’s prisons and may continue to make case-by-case placement decisions that have allowed most of them to remain in custody with men, a federal appeals court ruled.
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