The Times investigation - paedophile in women's prison

Ive already written about this on the other White thread.

There also needs to be an investigation into how these crimes are recorded. Male or female ?????
Crime stats must be by natal sex.

Also procedures for changing documents.

I’m only a couple of paragraphs in but the barrister representing the transgender prisoner seeking to have their criminal record wiped is named as Claire McCann, who has tweeted about speaking at the WEP conference yesterday. (Sorry - on phone and not worked out how to link but it’s easy to find.)

I think McCann may also feature in the Jess Bradley threads, possibly the second one.

As the details of this story come out, the utter failure of due diligence on the part of the prisons service is appalling. This must not ever happen again.

This case (before the public were aware of it) was brought to my MPs attention in a one to one meeting, yet she STILL won’t publicly express a pro women and girls opinion.

And she was a beneficiary of an all woman shortlist.

I sure hope that anyone harmed by White while in a government facility sues.

Happy to donate for a Crowdfunder for the legal fees.

I want this all to go away. It's horrific. I feel so powerless.

This needs to be brought up in Parliament, PM’s Questions.
It’s an utter disgrace , there should be a massive lawsuit from every Woman made to share prison space with this vile, predatory Man.

Briscoe, now a senior therapist at a charity, said Wood had a history of seeking access to mixed and women’s institutions to find and abuse vulnerable people. As well as the bail hostel and the prison, she said, police told her Wood had gained admission to a mixed psychiatric ward, where he had repeatedly raped a young woman patient suffering from Asperger’s syndrome

they knew THIS and just moved him in with vulnerable women where they share showers and sleeping areas.
just fuck. This. Shit.

Great article.

But appalling that it ever needed to be written. This should never have been allowed to happen. Those women were failed by the system and safeguards that should have protected them.

Out of curiosity, I wonder what was the make up of the panel that approved the move? Were there any women on the panel?

In the women's estate with a mother and baby unit no less. A convicted paedophile rapist.

What the absolute fuck?

"Wood had a history of seeking access to mixed and women’s institutions to find and abuse vulnerable people. As well as the bail hostel and the prison, she said, police told her Wood had gained admission to a mixed psychiatric ward, where he had repeatedly raped a young woman patient suffering from Asperger’s syndrome. "

What.

The.

Fuck?

And police and probation and the courts and the whole lot of them had access to that information and still went "yep here we have a genuine womanly woman who should be placed in the women's estate".

What can we actually do about this??

OMFG. This should be shared everywhere.

From another thread, I learnt that transgender prisoner requests are reviewed by a process which Gendered Intelligence helped inform. I wonder if anyone representing the interests of vulnerable women helped inform that process?

Great article. It is appalling that women prisoners have been forced into being the canaries in the coal mine.

Another great article from Andrew. Thank you. It is appalling that such a dangerous male was placed in a women’s prison with so much evidence of the risk he poses on file.