Brenda Díaz, a transgender woman with HIV, has been held in a men’s prison for two years after participating in an anti-government protest in Cuba on July 11, 2021. She was arrested in Güira de Melena along with hundreds of others during the demonstrations, and despite appealing her 14-year sentence, Cuba’s People’s Supreme Court upheld it, and she remains a political prisoner. There are concerns about her receiving appropriate medical care and reports of mistreatment in prison.
Government Shutdown Impacts On Federal Prisons
In our newsletter this week, we looked at some of the Stolen Lives from Butner Federal Medical Center in North Carolina, the federal Bureau of
