At the start of June, pink flyers announcing LGBT Month started appearing around FCI Petersburg, a medium-security federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia, where I am incarcerated. The fliers, along with many colorful postings in the Education Department, explained what LGBT means: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. They profiled famous and successful LGBT persons and generally strived to inject an element of understanding into the prison population, a population somewhat low on the concepts of compassion and understanding — particularly as it concerns gender and social issues.
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Published Jul 14, 2014 by Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA | Last Updated by Christopher Zoukis, JD, MBA on Oct 24, 2021 at 10:20 am
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I saw that article. I feel like awareness in the prison system and an understanding of the differences of others is perhaps more important there than anywhere else. A lack of understanding is likely one of the main issues that leads to criminal behavior. The more they accept others for who they are, the better they will probably be when back in society.
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