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= SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES = Activists argue that members of the LGBT community should have equal access to prison programs and services. This right is protected and provided for under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. They go on to state that solitary confinement is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment. In addition to the conditions themselves amounting to torture, solitary confinement usually restricts a person’s access to education, work, and program opportunities. "These opportunities are not only essential for maintaining a person’s mental health, but are usually necessary for achieving good time credit and being paroled. This means that LGBT people, who are likely to serve much of their sentence in isolation, are also more likely to serve the maximum time of non-life sentences".

According to Title IX of the Education Amendments discrimination on the basis of sex is illegal. Many education programs in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers are funded by the Federal government and those who take funding from the government, must adhere to the full tenets of these amendments. Title IX extends to protect inmates who are denied access to prison programs and services because of their gender identity or sexual orientation. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that all inmates should have equal access to libraries, educational programs, the internet and corresponding resources.

= HEALTH CARE AMONG LGBT PRISONERS BY COUNTRY = Many prisons deny health care to transgender inmates, relying on binary medical services in gender-separated prisons. Furthermore, many trans women and men are being denied psychological treatment for Gender Dysphoria: distressed caused by a mismatch of gender hormones and physical genitalia. Once a medical examination has taken place it is almost impossible to overturn or change the results of the test and evaluation.

As far as constitutional law is concerned, in result of Farmer vs. Brennan (1994), in accordance with the Eighth Amendment, prison officials cannot deliberately be indifferent towards blatant abuse directed at transgender prisoners. The protection of prisoners in the Eighth Amendment also extends to medical health care (i.e. hormone treatment and gender reassignment surgery). Of the transgender inmates serving in Federal or State prison, 75%-90% desire gender reassignment surgery and 85% desire hormone therapy. This " treatment is critical to maintain the health and safety of inmates, as without it, transgender prisoners may fall into deeper depression and have greater risk of life-threatening auto castration".