New Zealand: At-risk prisoners 'protected'

[Natasha]

New Zealand: At-risk prisoners 'protected'

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4454214a6002.html
03/27/2008

"Transgender prisoners at risk within prison walls are segregated for
their own protection, said the Corrections Department yesterday."

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[Kt]

New Zealand: At-risk prisoners 'protected'

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/4454214a6002.html
03/27/2008

"Transgender prisoners at risk within prison walls are segregated for
their own protection, said the Corrections Department yesterday."

I can't speak for New Zealand, but I know in the states "Segregation" means solitary confinement, typically 23 hours a day in a cell alone, such treatment maybe is not as bad as being violated/raped in general prison, but it's pretty terrible. Segregation is pretty common in american prisons for the transgendered.