Trans prisoners

In the 2021 data collection:

'There were 197 prisoners living in, or presenting in, a gender different to their sex assigned at birth and who have had a local case board. Of these, 158 reported their legal gender7 as male, 39 reported their legal gender as female. When asked about the gender with which the prisoner identified from the following categories, 146 identified as female, 39 as male, 11 as non-binary and 1 did not provide a response.'

'Based on this exercise, there were 2.5 transgender prisoners reported per 1,000 prisoners in custody on 30 April 2021, an increase from 2.0 per 1,000 on 31st March 2019.'

'Source'

In 2019, a Telegraph article:

'The figure, the first by the watchdog [Ministry of Justice], suggests there are up to 1,500 transgender inmates among the 90,000 prisoners in England and Wales, more than ten times previous estimates, and at least four times the number in the general population.'

'Source' (Link to report not provided in article, but I'm fairly sure it's this one)

In 2019, a Telegraph article:

'The UK’s first prison unit for transgender inmates was opened this year at HMP Downview, a women’s jail in south London, initially catering for three prisoners with gender recognition certificates.'

'Source' (Link to report not provided in article, but I'm fairly sure it's this one)