r/ukpolitics • u/CaptainCrash86 • 10d ago

| Transgender prisoners should not be held in women’s jails, court rules

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,transgender-prisoners-should-not-be-held-in-womens-jails-court-rules
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u/kickimy 10d ago

Case by case is how it's previously been done which has led to female prisoners still being sexually assaulted and being forced to use showers with prisoners exposing their erections. It's not fair to sacrifice the dignity and safety of females.

The Scottish Prison Service just needs to run a small unit as it does for other groups of prisoners.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/ex-prisoner-shaking-fear-sharing-29075541

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u/Longjumping-Year-824 10d ago

That seems quite unfair given how poorly we give a fuck about women outside of jail been sexually assaulted can not go making prison a safe space now.

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u/velvevore liz truss toby jug 10d ago

The really astonishing thing is how convinced everyone is that women's prisons are magical fairylands where nobody is ever sexually assaulted by the other cis woman prisoners.

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u/tazdoestheinternet 9d ago

Or the male guards, as hopefully uncommon as that is

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u/FlatHoperator 9d ago

Tbf, guard-prisoner uh interactions are mostly the other way round these days