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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Part 3.8 of the Custodial Operations Policy and Procedures of Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) outlines how prison authorities deal with transgender and intersex inmates. It aims to achieve best practice, non-discrimination, safety and security. The policy stipulates that a transgender person must be treated "as the gender with which they identify at their time of incarceration", addressed using their preferred pronouns and assessed as to which facility is the most appropriate for them to ...

I pay deep respect to the grieving families of those whose lives were unjustly cut short. In NSW, they include TJ Hickey, David Dungay, Rebecca Maher, Tane Chatfield, Eric Whittaker and Veronica Baxter. Every day that has passed since the death in custody of my son, I have felt anguish and pain and a sense of injustice. I have tried to make sense of the senseless loss of my son, and have struggled to have faith or any confidence in the subsequent, still ongoing, coronial and judicial oversight of his violent death. I am determined to find people of goodwill and a measure of compassion who wi...