The Department of Justice on Thursday launched civil rights investigations into prison systems in California and Maine over policies allowing transgender inmates to be housed in women's facilities, citing concerns about female inmates’ safety.The probes will examine whether the states are engaged in a "pattern or practice" of violating inmates’ rights, part of a broader federal push targeting what officials call a growing national issue.Attorney General Pamela Bondi said keeping "men out of women’s prisons [was] not only common sense – it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights."The inv...
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