Prisons Judicial Review: Judgement

[KeepPrisonsSingleSex]

It's finally here...
The judgement in the prisons judicial review R (FDJ) v SSJ
will be handed down by email at 10.30 am today...

Here is a reminder of what it was about:

www.keep-prisons-single-sex.org.uk/judicial-review-campaign-update

@ScaredOfDinosaurs

Women were raped and sexually assaulted in prison because they were locked up with male sex offenders. An entirely predictable outcome.

It is a sign of how utterly batshit these times are that this could ever have been considered as a sensible policy. Here's hoping that this judgement will put an end to this, that no more women have to go through such a horrific and preventable ordeal.

Absolutely

Fingers crossed.

Women were raped and sexually assaulted in prison because they were locked up with male sex offenders. An entirely predictable outcome.

It is a sign of how utterly batshit these times are that this could ever have been considered as a sensible policy. Here's hoping that this judgement will put an end to this, that no more women have to go through such a horrific and preventable ordeal.

Yes. It’s disgraceful.

Apprehensive waiting!

Whatever the outcome, so l glad this case has been brought, I'm trying to keep optimistic, but all is not lost if it doesn't go the right way.

And Stateside:

justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/advocates-female-inmates-push-back-californias-transgender-prisoner

Another session of constant screen refreshing! Fingers crossed…

Feeling so nervous about this.

[quote lionheart]And Stateside:

justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/advocates-female-inmates-push-back-californias-transgender-prisoner[/quote]
How can any reasonable person not foresee this?!!

Don't they know I have a meeting at 11? Madly refreshing....

Thanks for the non update!

@Rushhomeroad

Don't they know I have a meeting at 11? Madly refreshing....

Me too!

@Scarify

Whatever the outcome, so l glad this case has been brought, I'm trying to keep optimistic, but all is not lost if it doesn't go the right way.

Indeed. If we lose, it will still bring sunlight.

The idea that women convicted of poverty crimes can be locked up with rapists is worthy of a few headlines, I think.

The waiting is tortuous.

If this goes against the female who brought the case it will be the worst travesty of justice for a very long time, it will effectively be approving state sanctioned rape and sexual assault of female inmates. The document that was used to justify moving TW into the female prison estate never once mentioned the impact on female prisoners it was all about the TW and their feelings, disgraceful.

Fingers crossed. This is such an important case.

As PP said, how did they not think this would happen? Locking male bodied sex offenders up with women and just hoping for the best??

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/1746.html

Looks like a loss?

Not good

Have only skimmed. Looks like 'very sympathetic but sorry, this is legal'

"I shall use the word "transgender" to refer to a person who identifies as the opposite gender from that assigned at birth"

Oh fuck, they lost.

It's here:
www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/format.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2021/1746.html&query=(FDJ)

Need to read and digest, but short answer is that we lost.

What’s the next step?

Well, shit. I’m surprised. And I hope there are grounds to appeal.

This need to be picked up by every newspaper in the land.