TRANSGENDER prisoners who have committed sexual or violent crimes will be barred from women’s prisons in England and Wales.
Other trans detainees will also be held in male prisons if they still have male genitalia.
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The crackdown comes after trans double rapist Isla Bryson, 31, in a Scottish women’s prison.
Minister of justice Dominic Raab said: “Safety must come first in our prisons.
“This policy describes a down-to-earth approach to housing transgender prisoners.
“Transgenders who have committed themselves sexual or violent crimes – or retaining male genitals – will not serve their sentences in a women’s prison unless explicitly approved at the highest level.”
Bryson was eventually sent to a men’s prison.
But the storm helped put an end to it Nicholas Sturgeons career as First Minister of Scotland.
The UK government runs prisons in England and Wales and the Scottish government controls them north of the border.
Campaigners warned that housing dangerous trans inmates in female-only prisons posed a threat to other inmates.