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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Transgender prisoners: What are the facts in UK jails?

TWO high-profile criminal cases have sparked outrage in Scotland in the aftermath of the SNP's attempted transgender law reforms. 

One featured a double rapist who now identifies as a woman being held in segregation at a woman's prison near Stirling and another involved a dangerous prisoner who stalked a child and who requested a move to a female jail. 

But what are the facts on who gets sent to which prisons in the UK? 

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