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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Michael Kunzelman

Judge weighs bid to block or reverse transfers of transgender inmates into a segregated prison unit

Transgender Inmates - (AP2008)

The Trump administration has violated a court order by transferring several incarcerated transgender women to a segregated prison unit, an attorney for the inmates argued on Wednesday in urging a federal judge to enforce the order.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., didn't rule from the bench on the inmates' request to return them to general population at women's prisons and block more transfers into the segregated unit. But the judge expressed concern that the transfers violate a preliminary injunction that he issued last month.

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