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In July 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a plan to transfer dozens of incarcerated youths to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. The facility is the nation鈥檚 largest and has a longstanding record of human rights violations. It housed some 5,000 adult men, the...
The state of Florida in 2022 enacted House Bill 1557, commonly referred to as the 鈥淒on鈥檛 Say Gay鈥 law, which bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3 and restricts such discussions for students through grade 12 based on undefined standards of appropriateness. The...