The refusal to move a transsexual prisoner from a men's jail to a women's prison is a violation of her human rights, rules the High Court.
Deputy Judge David Elvin QC quashed Justice Secretary Jack Straw's decision to keep the 27-year-old, who cannot be identified, in a male prison.
Referred to as "A", she is serving a life sentence for manslaughter and attempted rape, committed when a man.
London's High Court heard the prisoner should be moved within a few weeks.
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