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Murderer serving at least 46 years transferred to women's prison

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PalatineUvula · 04/04/2019 11:14

news.wttw.com/2019/04/03/idoc-transfers-another-transgender-inmate-womens-prison

Andre Patterson was sent to prison the day after his 17th birthday for shooting two people. He killed his cellmate, Kimani Muhammad, in December 2016

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Patterson, now 29, has another 32 years in prison to serve and has now been sent to women's prison.

It's interesting firstly that in the US someone so young can have the 'key thrown away' at such a young age, and not surprising you might want out of your current cage and into a different one.

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GrinitchSpinach · 04/04/2019 17:52

Reason #1,356,728 why I despair for my country. By rights this should be the American Karen White moment, but instead this will get one night's coverage by the local TV news, and then disappear from the radar. Even if this person manages to kill a female inmate, I'd be shocked if it attracted publicity beyond the local media or possibly, possibly, very right wing national sources (which are immediately discounted by those on the left and many in the middle).

Sadly I think the 2020 Olympics and the general fairness in sports issue will gain much more national traction in America than the actual lives and safety of vulnerable women. I would be thrilled to be proven wrong...

DpWm · 04/04/2019 17:12

Anyone with more than 2 braincells knows this person is not trans. That they're taking the piss. Wtf.

eddiemairswife · 04/04/2019 16:00

I always find the American 'justice' system bewildering.

Barracker · 04/04/2019 15:55

You'd hope so, Bertrand, but a system that can put a man who murdered his cellmate by strangling him in with women in the first place doesn't strike me as one with any degree of reliable judgement.

This stuff is terrifying.

BertrandRussell · 04/04/2019 15:13

Presumably a prisoner who killed his cell mate will be in isolation?

BartholinsSister · 04/04/2019 15:10

They'll rip him to shreds won't they?

happydappy2 · 04/04/2019 13:11

So a fully intact Male with an extremely violent past is put in a womens prison.....I hope the relatives of the female inmates are fully aware & campaign to get him removed. Just wrong on so many levels.

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