Utilizing digital humanities in conjunction with a desire-based approach, “Comparative Incarceration of Trans* Women” presents an opportunity to uniquely understand the cross-cultural treatment of trans* women within incarceration facilities in the U.S. and Costa Rica through the lens of cultural acceptance. My project seeks to expose the nuances of incarcerated trans* women’s experiences while also debunking the idea that trans* women are safer in the U.S. By completing a compassionate analysis of statistics through case studies and national surveys, I describe trans* women’s everyday experiences and provide humanizing visual representations of trans* joy and activism to make this topic accessible to a general audience. I thus highlight discrepancies between policy application from a quantitative perspective by presenting interactive maps, which compare the U.S. state variability to the universal, but minimal protections afforded by Costa Rica. Contrasting the policy measures, I provide geographically mapped stories from U.S. incarcerated trans* women and a statistical analysis breaking down the preferences and experiences of Costa Rican trans* women. This section is most important to me as these women’s voices tend to be subjugated in knowledge production despite their existence being at the center of the phenomenon. The most difficult and meaningful component of this research was uncovering the words these women used to describe their experiences. My findings present the particularities of progress and regress of treatment and policy between the two countries and thus provide a basis upon which abolitionist feminists can draw evidence for their arguments.