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Prisons timeline: how did we get here?

20th May 2021 by FPFW

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    • Dec 2015

      UK government announces a review of the care and management of transgender offenders

    • 2016
      New prison policy by HMPPS entitled “On the Care and Management of Transgender Offenders”

    • Mar 2017
      BBC reports “Transgender rapist moved to women’s prison after sex change”

    • Oct 2017
      Fair Play For Women (FPFW) produces the first evidence that the male-born transgender prison cohort has a pattern of offending at least as high as the male prison cohort as a whole. Our analysis, later confirmed by the MOJ, shows that approximately half of transgender prisoners are located in sex offender units or category A prisons

    • Nov 2017
      Andrew Bridgen MP tables a Parliamentary question asking the MOJ how many male born transgender prisoners are in female prisons and how many of them have convictions for sex offences. The answer: the data is not held

    • Dec 2017
      FPFW makes a submission to the Justice Select Committee Inquiry “Prison Planning for 2022”

    • Feb 2018
      Sunday Post reports the problems with a violent trans-identifying male murder convict in a Scottish prison.

    • Oct 2018
      FPFW has first meeting with Ministry of Justice and HMPPS

    • Dec 2018
      FPFW petition calls on the government to urgently review prison rules

    • 2019

      FPFW maintains pressure through regular calls, emails and meetings with MoJ officials throughout the year.

    • May 2019
      We publish an article in Inside Time magazine asking prisoners and staff to make contact to give their views on the accommodation of transwomen in female prisons. A number of prisoners responded

    • July 2019
      Daily Telegraph reports that one in fifty prisoners now identifies as transgender

    • Nov 2019
      A female prisoner launches a case against the MoJ for its transgender prisoner policy which put her at risk in prison. FPFW is an expert witness

    • Feb 2021
      High Court hears the judicial review case.

    • 2 July 2021
      Judgement is made in favour of the MoJ. The policy is judged lawful, but the ruling confirms trans rights do conflict with women’s rights

    • Jan 2023
      Media coverage of double rapist Isla Bryson/Adam Graham, 6’5″ convicted paedophile Katie Dolotowski and “Scotland’s most dangerous prisoner” Tiffany Scott/Andrew Burns, all of whom the Scottish prison service proposed to house in a women’s prison

    • Feb 2023
      New prison policy in England and Wales comes into force. Male sex offenders and prisoners with male genitalia will not be transferred to women’s prisons, regardless of claimed identity.

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