Transsexual prisoners will NOT have to have intimate strip searches under 'sensi

[Shana A]

Transsexual prisoners will NOT have to have intimate strip searches under 'sensitive' new guidelines

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 12:50 PM on 13th December 2010

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1338206/Transsexuals-excused-prison-strip-searches-leaked-government-document-reveals.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Transsexual prison inmates have been excused from intimate strip searches. a leaked government document has revealed.

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke issued the edict as part of a raft of new rules concerning how female prisoners are treated.

The guidelines will anger pro-prison campaigners who have already attacked Mr Clarke for becoming too lenient with sentences.

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By TOM NEWTON DUNN, Political Editor

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3273280/Justice-Secretary-Ken-Clarke-orders-no-intimate-strip-searches-for-sex-change-prisoners.html

PRISON bosses have been told not to order intimate strip searches on sex swap lags, it was revealed last night.

The new rule has been drawn up by officials working for Justice Secretary Ken Clarke - who has already been slammed for going soft on sentences.

And the "squat" search ban does not only apply to prisoners who've had a sex change. Officials have ruled that gender swappers are now exempt even if they haven't yet had any surgery. Angry prison officers say the naked searches are the only way jails can detect drugs or weapons that prisoners have hidden inside the

[regan]

So when prison contraband seizures go through the roof and the apparent transgender (percieved) population also skyrockets is anyone going to be suspicious?

I mean really, if I have the misfortune to be in a British prison the first thing I'm going to do is offer to smuggle contraband - its just a matter of survival by any means necessary and I'd much rather do that then some of the other things I can only imagine I would do in order to survive in prison.