Rattling the Bars: Why are so many LGBTQ people incarcerated in the US?
\u201cAt least 40% of people incarcerated in American women\u2019s prisons identify somewhere under the broad lesbian-bisexual-trans-queer umbrella\u2014a shocking statistic that holds true when looking at detention centers for youths as well,\u201d historian Hugh Ryan recently wrote in The Washington Post. \u201cAs women\u2019s incarceration skyrockets in America\u2014increasing 700% in just the past 40 years\u2014naming and dealing with the homophobia and transphobia at its root is crucial to understanding this phenomenon and unraveling it.\u201d In this edition of Rattling the Bars, Mansa Musa speaks with Ryan about why so many LGBTQ people are incarcerated today and how sexism, homophobia, and transphobia became baked-in features of our modern prison-industrial complex.
Hugh Ryan is a New York-based historian, curator, and author of The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison and When Brooklyn Was Queer.
Pre-Production/Studio/Post-Production: Cameron Granadino
Read the transcript of this podcast: https://therealnews.com/why-are-so-many-lgbtq-people-incarcerated-in-the-us
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