Prison authorities’ own rules would have required them to consider a transgender sex offender’s criminal history before placing the inmate in the state’s main women’s jail.Women at the Dame Phyllis Frost Correctional Centre in Deer Park have launched a petition to have the prisoner transferred out of their jail, the Herald Sun revealed last week.Among those considerations is whether an inmate’s criminal record indicates a history of sexual and/or physical violence.“In the placement of trans, gender diverse and intersex prisoners, the safety and welfare of the prisoner and of other prisoners are of paramount consideration,” the requirements document states.Jessica Williams, the founder of the Single Sex Prisons WA, said she was not confident those guidelines had been followed in the Dame Phyllis case.The transgender inmate is in jail for sexually assaulting a woman in a Richmond street and has spent time in a European prison for a child-sex offence against a girl.“Is their (the women’s) safety being treated as paramount? I don’t think so,” Mrs Williams said.
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