WATCH: How poetry brought Phoenix's queer community together
The group thems. started out as a weekend market and has since exploded by using poetry and other art to build up the community.
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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