Advocate for ‘gender affirming care’ for prisoners named by AG Garland to corrections advisory board
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a progressive state prison official — who was instrumental in establishing “gender-affirming care” for trans inmates in Washington state — to serve on the Justice Department’s National Institute of Corrections (NIC) advisory board. Among the policies implemented was one where pat-downs or other searches would be “performed by a correctional…

