ing health or safety concerns which cannot be resolved”. Definitive data on male prisoners housed in women’s estates is difficult to obtain; however, estimates are that 50% of all requests for transfers from men’s to women’s prisons are from sex offenders.
Heather Mason, former Canadian federal prisoner and advocate for women in prison, is slowly compiling data on the number of male prisoners in women’s prisons, and the crimes they have committed. Ms Mason is currently aware of 16 transgender prisoners convicted of sex offences. If these cases are added to the estimated 21 women in prison for sexual assaults, the proportion of convicted sex offenders almost doubles.
In other words, it's all a great big mess.
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