You know, you just don't hear about unexpected penises every day, do you?
Inmate at women's prison is discovered to be a man: You could call it a case of mistaken sexual identity. An inmate at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women was moved to an isolation cell Monday after the prisoner said he is a man and a physical examination verified it. Billie Jo Hawks, 43, of Battletown, had been admitted to the women's prison near Pewee Valley on Oct.22 and was housed in a dorm with female inmates. For eight months before that, Hawks was held in the women's section of the Meade County Detention Center on convictions of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and cultivating marijuana. [...] All inmates are subject to a thorough strip search as part of the admission process to any state prison to ensure no contraband is brought into prison, [Lisa Lamb, spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections] said. As for how Hawks' organ went unnoticed earlier, Lamb said, "All we can say for now is that clearly procedures were not followed in the admission of this inmate."
Well, I should think they might not have been followed, no.
According to another article, Hawks also has breasts. The issue on which everyone is pointedly not commenting is whether or not Hawks was undergoing gender reassignment treatment, and somehow that got missed on the record.
That said, I can't imagine what else they can do besides keep Hawks in isolation in a men's prison, or in isolation or general population in a women's prison. The one option not available is general population in a men's prison; that's just throwing rape bait to the masses.
Posted by iain at November 07, 2003 01:44 PM
