Transexual prisoner wins right to move to women's prison
A transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape committed while she was a man has overturned a decision to refuse her a place in a female prison.
The 27-year-old prisoner, who cannot be identified, was described by her lawyer as ''a woman trapped inside a man's body''.
Deputy Judge David Elvin QC, sitting at London's High Court, quashed Justice Secretary Jack Straw's decision to continue detaining ''A'' in a male prison.
''I declare her continued detention in a male prison is in breach of her rights under Article 8 (right to private and family life) under the European Convention on Human Rights''.
The bit that gets me about this story is this claim by the MoJ: "The Department of Justice and the prison authorities argued that the prisoner would be no more likely to be accepted by inmates at a female prison and that, if moved, she would have to spend long periods in segregation at an extra cost of £80,000 per year". As it costs £40,000 per year for a prisoner on normal location, if the MoJ claim is true, why does it cost £120,000 for each prisoner on segregation?
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Friday, September 04, 2009
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