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Joint effort : Expériences de prison des participants de Trans PULSE et des recommandations de changement

19 Apr 2013

Joint Effort: Prison Experiences of Trans PULSE Participants and Recommendations for Change Trans PULSE is a community-based research project investigating the impact of social exclusion and discrimination on the health of trans people in Ontario, Canada. [...] Trans people in prison Key Findings are vulnerable to HIV and Hepatitis C1, as rates are Of 23 Trans PULSE participants who reported much higher within prisons, where harm reduction having been in prison while presenting in their felt services are not consistently offered or accessible. [...] Therefore, the fact that no participants A majority of Trans PULSE participants who had reported having been in federal prison in the last been in prison were living in poverty, or below the year should not be taken to mean that trans low-income cutoff, as compared to about a third people were not represented in federal prisons of all trans Ontarians2. [...] We did not ask that trans Ontarians in general have low personal participants when they were in prison (aside from incomes, suggesting that trans people who have the last year); reported prison experiences may been in prison may have less financial support have occurred in the past few years or decades from household members or other sources. [...] Reflecting the over-representation of number of improvements in policy, training, Aboriginal people in Ontario’s prison population, a justice system practices, and service provision are quarter of ex-prisoners who participated in Trans necessary to address the burden of discrimination PULSE were First Nations, Inuit, or Métis.
health gender government politics poverty prison research discrimination labour law law enforcement unemployment harm reduction social issues crime, law and justice survey methodology punishment (criminal) harassment transgender people trans people trans trans woman sex reassignment surgery

Authors

Scheim, Ayden, Cherian, Mooky, Bauer, Greta

Pages
4
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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