Sunday 7 August 2022 10:43 PM Trans prisoners to be barred from women's jails in strict new policy proposed ... trends now
Transgender prisoners who are biologically male are to be blocked from serving time in women’s jails, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Following high-profile sex scandals involving trans prisoners, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab plans to implement a new policy whereby Ministers have to sign off any move to a women’s prison of a male-bodied inmate who self identifies as a woman.
The Government would also have the power to order the removal of transgender prisoners from jails.
Sources said Mr Raab has adopted the tough stance following an alarming incident earlier this year involving a transgender prisoner serving time for murder at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey.
Transgender prisoners who are biologically male are to be blocked from serving time in women’s jails. Pictured: Convicted sex offender Karen White, formerly known as Stephen Wood, who sexually assaulted two women while on remand at New Hall jail in Wakefield
The killer, who has male genitalia, was caught having consensual sex with another inmate after consuming illegally brewed alcohol.
There was also an allegation that the same inmate committed a sexual assault against a second female prisoner, but last night the Ministry of Justice said they had no record of a complaint.
A whistleblower at Bronzefield said female inmates were ‘extremely uncomfortable’ by the transgender prisoner’s presence but felt unable to complain.
The insider said the killer had allegedly been overheard saying, ‘I’m going to f*** you’ to one prisoner, and, on another occasion, said: ‘I love p**** – why would I want to be in a man’s prison?’
Last year it was revealed there were 40 transgender prisoners in women’s prisons in England and Wales. Almost all were born male.
Officials confirmed there have been seven sex attacks of female prisoners by
