Woman prisoner describes sharing space with males

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www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/ex-prisoner-shaking-fear-sharing-29075541

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'“He was in prison for domestic abuse against his female partner and yet here he was being allowed to intimidate women every day.

“We were told his name was Laura and that we would need to call him by that name, while the murderer was called Alex.

“I felt like if I was to misgender them it would be me who would be getting into trouble and possibly having my sentence lengthened.

“We didn’t have showers in our cells and so we had to shower in the communal shower block, so women who were traumatised and vulnerable had to be naked and shower with men in their spaces.
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“I know some female prisoners decided not to shower at all as a result because they feared they would be raped or assaulted.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64431383 Mr Brown is mitigating the disaster sharpish. But the wording is ever so careful. None are considered a threat. beautiful. What about the dignity of the women already present? No amount of risk assessment can cover that. And it does seem that they are only rejected if they've been violent towards women. Violence towards men? Sounds so much like they think we are stupid.

apparently women prisoners ‘aren’t very nice people’

Nor is Fae.

Me too, and I hope she does.

That seems beyond belief, though. How can it be legal to force women in prison, so they have nowhere else to go, to choose between either showering with male-bodied people (God, that ludicrous expression makes my teeth ache as I type it) or not being allowed to shower? How can that not be an exemption?