Not downplaying these people's experiences, but nothing here strikes me as abnormal in the American prison system. If you've spent a day or two in county, you know what I mean.

When I was in Chicago, Cook County SOP was to test every male inmate for gonorrhea with a pipe up the dick. If you've ever had a catheter, well, you know. Looks like they got sued after I left the city.

Forced to work
Vengeful and harassing wardens
Retaliation for reporting abuse
Staff beat them and denied them medical treatment
Persistently sexually harassed
Forced her to perform oral sex on him (OK, that one's getting way out there.)

Some dumbass will say I'm justifying all this. All I'm saying is, "First time kid?"

This is not a queer or trans thing, this is an everyone thing, though I'm certain LGBT gets the fattest end of the stick. Don't care if you're a middle-aged, cis, white guy, you're getting abused to hell and back.

"Oh my GOSH! They punched me and kicked me and cut of my circulation with cuffs!" Yeah. That's typical intake procedure. "They remove any body parts?" "My skin got burned from cleaning chemicals!" "Grew back, didn't it?"

Don't know where I'm going with this except to say it's all normal inmate abuse. Guess I'm a little shocked that people don't know this, think it's new or specially targeted.