ADDENDUM::Texas Gay Man, 32, Dies in Custody After Being Denied Medication | Advocate.com

Although I was aware of the following prison abuses as single incidents, I never considered that there may be a "problem".   

While the death of Jacobs is one of the most recent high-profile cases of a gay man dying in police custody, numerous transgender inmates have reported prison abuses. Cece McDonald, jailed for killing her racist, transphobic attacker, suffered 19 months in a men's prison. Ky Peterson, a black trans man, was imprisoned for killing his rapist and is serving 20 years in a Georgia prison, including 15 in confinement; he's been unsuccessful in obtaining hormone therapy that his doctors have deemed medically necessary. Also serving time in Georgia is trans woman Ashley Diamond, who claims she's been sexually assaulted several times in men's prisons and also denied hormone therapy. Diamond filed a federal lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections in February, and in April saw the federal Department of Justice validate her claims that denying her medically necessary treatment violated her rights under the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

Texas Gay Man, 32, Dies in Custody After Being Denied Medication | Advocate.com