A last-minute appearance by Dr. Jill Biden at this year’s Flagstaff Pride left community members to lash out against their local Pride organization.
The considerable shift to the right locally showed many that the work to attain civil rights is far from over.
The preference runs counter to national survey results showing Donald Trump more favorable among people incarcerated.
Recent survey data conducted on trans and nonbinary prisoners in Arizona show stronger support for Vice President Kamala Harris in tomorrow’s election, but barriers to ballots and a lackadaisical approach to politics may mean their votes aren’t cast.
The Marshall Project, a non-profit news outlet covering the criminal justice system, sent out tens of thousands of surveys to incarcerated people in an attempt to learn how prisoners felt about the election cycle.
Almost 54,000 people responded to the surveys. Among them were more than 6,900 prisoners across Arizona's detention centers, with 145 of those people identifying as transgender, nonbinary, or two-spirited.
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