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Sarah Jane Baker

Sarah Jane Baker (born 1969) is a British transgender rights activist, author, convicted criminal, prison inmate, and artist. She created the Trans Prisoner Alliance to support trans people in prison,[1] and was the UK's longest-serving transgender prisoner at the time of her release.[2]

Sarah Jane Baker
Baker interviewed in 2020
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Brixton, South London, England
Occupations
Known forUK's longest-serving transgender prisoner
Notable work
  • Life Imprisonment : An Unofficial Guide
  • Transgender Behind Prison Walls
Websitesarah-jane-baker.com

She grew up in London in a large family and was neglected by her parents. She was imprisoned, initially for seven years, as a young offender for kidnapping and torturing her stepmother's brother, which was extended to a life sentence for the attempted murder of another inmate[3] who, she said, had repeatedly attacked her.[4] She escaped from prison in 2007, and was caught after three months.

Baker says she learned to read and write in prison; there she published two books and contributed to a third, and created artwork that was exhibited after her release. She served 30 years in 29 different male prisons, during which time she came out as a trans woman in 2013, and cut off her own testicles with a razor blade in 2017.[2] After her release in 2019, Baker became a transgender rights activist and announced her intention to stand as a political candidate.

She was arrested after a speech at London Trans+ Pride in 2023, and charged with "commissioning an offence". She was found not guilty of the charge, but recalled to prison because she was on licence.[5]

Early life edit

Born Alan Baker in 1969 in Brixton, South London,[6][3][7] Baker grew up in Camberwell, South London, in a poor family, where her father had numerous partners; she was one of 14 children.[6][3] She alternated between living with her family and foster care.[2] She says she felt she was a woman trapped in a male body,[2] and was regularly afraid of being battered on the streets.[6]

In 1987, Baker's father remarried and in 1988 moved to Folkestone, Kent. The Baker children were often not welcome at their father's new home, and lived rough on the streets in London.[8] In March 1989, Baker's father asked his children to trace their stepmother who had left home. Baker, aged 20, her 18 year old brother, and two teenage male associates went to the stepmother's family residence in Thornton Heath, South London, where they found her brother. They broke in, armed with knives, kidnapped the step uncle in a stolen van, and tortured him until he was released by police after almost 24 hours.[8] In September 1989, Baker and her brother were sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a young offender institution, with their accomplices receiving six years youth custody.[8]

Imprisonment edit

The first of what would eventually become 29 different male prisons over 30 years for Baker was Feltham Young Offenders Institution.[3]

On 12 December 1989, while Baker was being held at HM Prison Swinfen Hall young offender institution in Staffordshire, she tried to kill a fellow inmate with a garotte[9][10] an alleged child rapist who Baker said had bullied her, attacking her three times previously.[11][4] She was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder[12]

In 1994, Baker's 17-year-old brother was killed while walking home from college. In 2008, Baker wrote that she forgave her brother's killer and hoped that the killer would "sort his life out for the better", since Baker also considered the killer to be a victim.[13][14]

In 1996, Baker began making art in prison; she could not get pencils because she had self harmed, but she paid for a cross stitch kit.[3]

On 7 April 2007, Baker and another inmate who had been convicted of murder escaped from HM Prison Leyhill, an open prison in Gloucestershire, where inmates had minimal supervision.[15] Baker's fellow fugitive was recaptured less than two weeks later,[16] but Baker herself remained at large for about 100 days before being caught.

In September 2009, now in HM Prison Elmley in Kent, Baker wrote an article in Inside Time in which she said she loved prison. She called herself a "professional prisoner", and said that she had so much freedom from responsibility that she never wanted to be freed or paroled.[17][14]

Another pen pal who befriended Baker in prison tracked down Baker's mother, who then visited Baker in prison regularly until her death in June 2013.[11]

Baker spent part of her sentence in HM Prison Full Sutton in East Riding of Yorkshire, during the time serial killer Dennis Nilsen was imprisoned there (2003–2018). She writes that they played violin and piano duets, and the board game Scrabble, which she says Nilsen cheated at.[18][19][20]

Books edit

Baker says that she learned to read and write in prison.[2] While imprisoned, she wrote poems and short stories, published two books, and contributed a section to a third.

On 8 July 2013, writing as Alan Baker, she published Life Imprisonment : An Unofficial Guide. It was intended to be read by prisoners newly sentenced to life imprisonment, and comprised 41 segments explaining their journey. In a long Acknowledgments section Baker "most of all" thanks her son, siblings, and mother, and a To My Victims section includes a long acknowledgement of guilt and apology judged sincere by a reviewer.[21][22] The foreword was written by Tim Newell, former governor of HM Prison Grendon. It won the Koestler Trust Silver Award, and was reviewed by academic journals about prison studies.[23][22]

Baker's second book, Transgender Behind Prison Walls, in March 2017, writing as Sarah Baker, drew even more notice. It was written with the help of Baker's pen pal Pam Stockwell, who also wrote the foreword.[11] It was published after Baker's public gender transition, and described being a transgender woman in a male prison.[7][24][25][26] A review called it a supportive guide written with a generous kindness and well thought out suggestions.[27]

Baker also contributed a chapter on the bureaucracy of gender transition in prison to Prison: A Survival Guide, in 2019 by Carl Cattermole.[28] A collection of poems and short stories that Baker wrote during her incarceration was independently published as Borstal to Bedlam: Poetry & Prose from the Gutter to the Grave in mid 2023, in support of her during her re-incarceration and prosecution at that time.[29]

Gender transition edit

Baker began her formal gender transition soon after publishing her first book in 2013, asking to be called Sarah.[11] She continued to spend her sentence imprisoned in male jails. She says that after coming out as transgender she was stabbed and raped by other inmates.[2] It was incorrectly reported in some newspapers that she had gender-affirming surgery paid for by the National Health Service at taxpayer expense.[24] Instead, Baker says she was told she was not gender dysphoric and that she would first need to live two years as a woman outside prison.[24] She was allowed makeup but not regular estrogen for feminizing hormone therapy until in her desperation to transition, she cut off her own testicles with a razor blade in 2017.[2][24][12]

In July 2019, Baker was the longest serving of approximately 140 "out", or publicly revealed, transgender prisoners in England and Wales.[4] 42 of these were in women's prisons, but not Baker, who was in a Vulnerable Prisoners Unit at HM Prison Lewes.[4] The expressed stance of the Prison Officers' Association was that some inmates were genuinely gender dysphoric, others were "looking at it as a soft option for prison life".[30] Baker wrote "if constant bullying, comments, sexual harassment and isolation are your idea of a soft option then I'd suggest you haven't really thought things through."[4] When asked if she would have preferred a women's prison, Baker denied it, saying she liked sex with men, which she would never get there.[4] After release, she wrote an article for Vice magazine about her experiences of love and sex as a transgender woman in male prison.[31]

After release edit

Baker was released on parole from prison in September 2019.[2][12][32] Initially she lived in a bedsit, supporting herself by street performance on her violin and selling posters of her embroidery online.[4] In February 2020, her cross-stitching was exhibited at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery's "Queer the Pier" exhibit dedicated to queer history.[33][34] In 2022 her art appeared in an article in Architectural Review.[35]

By 2020, Baker set up an advocacy group called The Transprisoner Alliance to deliver support like letters and cosmetics to transgender prisoners.[2][12] In 2021 she announced plans to contest the Richmond Park Parliament constituency on a platform of prison reform and opposing gentrification.[6][36] She received Universal Credit, a supplement for low income, and attended many protests, including some to support her partner, a National Health Service nurse and Unite the Union representative.[36]

She carried a sign reading "Kill JK Rowling" to the June 2021 London Trans+ Pride parade.[37] In January 2023, Baker criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.[20] She led a protest at the inaugural event of gender critical feminist and philosopher Kathleen Stock's The Lesbian Project.[38]

Re-imprisonment edit

At 8 July 2023 London Trans+ Pride Parade, Baker gave a speech to the crowd where she said "if you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face", a statement that was videotaped and widely distributed.[39] Asked for their reaction, London Trans+ Pride organisers said that, "We do not condone violence. We do not back a call to arms for violence of any kind. We do condone righteous anger."[39] Baker's speech was reported to Metropolitan Police, who initially stated that the call to violence was hypothetical, but after investigating arrested her on 12 July for incitement to violence.[40][41] According to the terms of her parole, she was recalled to prison pending her trial,[32] specifically to HMP Wandsworth, a men's prison.[42]

Supporters, led by Baker's partner, launched a "Free Sarah Jane Baker" campaign online in July,[32][43] and protested outside Westminster Magistrates Court in August.[44] On 31 August 2023, she was found not guilty by magistrate Tan Ikram, after she said that she was just trying to get on the front page of the Daily Mail, and wished she could take her words back.[45][46] As of 21 October 2023, she was still imprisoned, now at HM Prison Isle of Wight, and continued to be supported by protesters from the Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign.[5]

According to the Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign, as of November 2023, Baker’s oestrogen treatment has been stopped and she has instead been offered testosterone, which the campaign says "amounts to a medical detransition". The healthcare practice providing services to the prison said this was a "temporary measure while the healthcare team fulfils their duty of care to ensure that the benefits of any drugs we prescribe outweigh any risks".[47]

Bibliography edit

  • Life Imprisonment : An Unofficial Guide, writing as Alan Baker, 8 July 2013, Waterside Press, ISBN 978-1-904380-93-1[23]
  • Transgender Behind Prison Walls, writing as Sarah Baker, Waterside Press, 15 March 2017, Waterside Press, ISBN 978-1909976450[24]
  • Prison: A Survival Guide, chapter on the bureaucracy of gender transition in prison, Carl Cattermole, 20 June 2019, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-1529103496.[28]
  • Borstal to Bedlam: Poetry & Prose from the Gutter to the Grave, mid 2023, AKA Press[29]

References edit

  1. ^ "With letters and lipstick, a transgender prisoner helps those left inside".
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Finn, Tom; O'Brian, Cormac (11 March 2020). "With letters and lipstick, a transgender prisoner helps those left inside". Reuters. Retrieved 16 July 2023. Also available as Finn, Tom; O'Brian, Cormac (11 March 2020). "With letters and lipstick, a transgender prisoner helps those left inside". OPENLY. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e Andersson, Jasmine; Baker, Sarah Jane (17 December 2019). "I am the UK's longest-serving transgender prisoner. This is what I learned". i. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g Abraham, Amelia (6 November 2019). "What it's like to be trans in the UK prison system". Dazed. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  5. ^ a b Couldrey, David (23 October 2023). "DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE PRISON IN SUPPORT OF TRANS ACTIVIST SARAH JANE BAKER". Island Echo. Retrieved 25 October 2023.
  6. ^ a b c d Askew, Joshua (19 January 2022). "Camberwell woman sets her sights on becoming UK's first trans-gender MP". Southwark News. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  7. ^ a b Harrison, Karen (September 2017). "Book Review: Transgender. Behind Prison Walls" (PDF). Prison Service Journal (233): 43. ISSN 0300-3558. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  8. ^ a b c "Terror at the hands of sadists". Folkestone Herald. 15 September 1989. p. 5. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Inmate gets life for murder bid". Sandwell Evening Mail. 31 October 1990. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  10. ^ "Trial". Lichfield and Rugeley Chase Post. 26 July 1990. p. 11. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  11. ^ a b c d Keate, Georgie (4 August 2013). . Croydon Advertiser. Archived from the original on 24 August 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  12. ^ a b c d Wakefield, Lily (12 March 2020). "Britain's longest-serving trans prisoner is now helping trans people locked up in the wrong prisons". PinkNews. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  13. ^ Baker, Alan (January 2008). "Dropping the masks". Inside Time. p. 4.
  14. ^ a b "Prisoner boasts that he never wants to be freed". The Telegraph. 6 September 2009. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Two men abscond from open prison". BBC News. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Absconder from prison re-arrested". BBC News. 19 April 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
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  18. ^ Baker, Sarah Jane (27 September 2018). "Dennis Nilsen: In memory of a Scrabble cheat". Inside Time. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  19. ^ "HMP Full Sutton: Evil Behind Bars". Channel 5. 30 November 2022. p. Circa 31:00, and 56:00. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  20. ^ a b Ramirez, Isabel (17 January 2023). "Camberwell trans woman condemns PM's decision to block Scottish bill over safety concerns - Southwark News". Southwark News. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
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  23. ^ a b Booth, Samantha (September 2014). "Book review: Life Imprisonment: An Unofficial Guide". Probation Journal. 61 (3): 300–301. doi:10.1177/0264550514545462a. ISSN 0264-5505. S2CID 147501658.
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  40. ^ Montgomery, Sam (13 July 2023). "Trans activist arrested after telling rally of supporters to 'punch' feminists". GB News. MSN. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
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External links edit

  • Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign's official website.

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Sarah Jane Baker born 1969 is a British transgender rights activist author convicted criminal prison inmate and artist She created the Trans Prisoner Alliance to support trans people in prison 1 and was the UK s longest serving transgender prisoner at the time of her release 2 Sarah Jane BakerBaker interviewed in 2020Born1969 age 54 55 Brixton South London EnglandOccupationsTransgender rights activistauthorKnown forUK s longest serving transgender prisonerNotable workLife Imprisonment An Unofficial GuideTransgender Behind Prison WallsWebsitesarah jane baker wbr com She grew up in London in a large family and was neglected by her parents She was imprisoned initially for seven years as a young offender for kidnapping and torturing her stepmother s brother which was extended to a life sentence for the attempted murder of another inmate 3 who she said had repeatedly attacked her 4 She escaped from prison in 2007 and was caught after three months Baker says she learned to read and write in prison there she published two books and contributed to a third and created artwork that was exhibited after her release She served 30 years in 29 different male prisons during which time she came out as a trans woman in 2013 and cut off her own testicles with a razor blade in 2017 2 After her release in 2019 Baker became a transgender rights activist and announced her intention to stand as a political candidate She was arrested after a speech at London Trans Pride in 2023 and charged with commissioning an offence She was found not guilty of the charge but recalled to prison because she was on licence 5 Contents 1 Early life 2 Imprisonment 2 1 Books 2 2 Gender transition 3 After release 4 Re imprisonment 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External linksEarly life editBorn Alan Baker in 1969 in Brixton South London 6 3 7 Baker grew up in Camberwell South London in a poor family where her father had numerous partners she was one of 14 children 6 3 She alternated between living with her family and foster care 2 She says she felt she was a woman trapped in a male body 2 and was regularly afraid of being battered on the streets 6 In 1987 Baker s father remarried and in 1988 moved to Folkestone Kent The Baker children were often not welcome at their father s new home and lived rough on the streets in London 8 In March 1989 Baker s father asked his children to trace their stepmother who had left home Baker aged 20 her 18 year old brother and two teenage male associates went to the stepmother s family residence in Thornton Heath South London where they found her brother They broke in armed with knives kidnapped the step uncle in a stolen van and tortured him until he was released by police after almost 24 hours 8 In September 1989 Baker and her brother were sentenced to seven years imprisonment in a young offender institution with their accomplices receiving six years youth custody 8 Imprisonment editThe first of what would eventually become 29 different male prisons over 30 years for Baker was Feltham Young Offenders Institution 3 On 12 December 1989 while Baker was being held at HM Prison Swinfen Hall young offender institution in Staffordshire she tried to kill a fellow inmate with a garotte 9 10 an alleged child rapist who Baker said had bullied her attacking her three times previously 11 4 She was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempted murder 12 In 1994 Baker s 17 year old brother was killed while walking home from college In 2008 Baker wrote that she forgave her brother s killer and hoped that the killer would sort his life out for the better since Baker also considered the killer to be a victim 13 14 In 1996 Baker began making art in prison she could not get pencils because she had self harmed but she paid for a cross stitch kit 3 On 7 April 2007 Baker and another inmate who had been convicted of murder escaped from HM Prison Leyhill an open prison in Gloucestershire where inmates had minimal supervision 15 Baker s fellow fugitive was recaptured less than two weeks later 16 but Baker herself remained at large for about 100 days before being caught In September 2009 now in HM Prison Elmley in Kent Baker wrote an article in Inside Time in which she said she loved prison She called herself a professional prisoner and said that she had so much freedom from responsibility that she never wanted to be freed or paroled 17 14 Another pen pal who befriended Baker in prison tracked down Baker s mother who then visited Baker in prison regularly until her death in June 2013 11 Baker spent part of her sentence in HM Prison Full Sutton in East Riding of Yorkshire during the time serial killer Dennis Nilsen was imprisoned there 2003 2018 She writes that they played violin and piano duets and the board game Scrabble which she says Nilsen cheated at 18 19 20 Books edit Baker says that she learned to read and write in prison 2 While imprisoned she wrote poems and short stories published two books and contributed a section to a third On 8 July 2013 writing as Alan Baker she published Life Imprisonment An Unofficial Guide It was intended to be read by prisoners newly sentenced to life imprisonment and comprised 41 segments explaining their journey In a long Acknowledgments section Baker most of all thanks her son siblings and mother and a To My Victims section includes a long acknowledgement of guilt and apology judged sincere by a reviewer 21 22 The foreword was written by Tim Newell former governor of HM Prison Grendon It won the Koestler Trust Silver Award and was reviewed by academic journals about prison studies 23 22 Baker s second book Transgender Behind Prison Walls in March 2017 writing as Sarah Baker drew even more notice It was written with the help of Baker s pen pal Pam Stockwell who also wrote the foreword 11 It was published after Baker s public gender transition and described being a transgender woman in a male prison 7 24 25 26 A review called it a supportive guide written with a generous kindness and well thought out suggestions 27 Baker also contributed a chapter on the bureaucracy of gender transition in prison to Prison A Survival Guide in 2019 by Carl Cattermole 28 A collection of poems and short stories that Baker wrote during her incarceration was independently published as Borstal to Bedlam Poetry amp Prose from the Gutter to the Grave in mid 2023 in support of her during her re incarceration and prosecution at that time 29 Gender transition edit Baker began her formal gender transition soon after publishing her first book in 2013 asking to be called Sarah 11 She continued to spend her sentence imprisoned in male jails She says that after coming out as transgender she was stabbed and raped by other inmates 2 It was incorrectly reported in some newspapers that she had gender affirming surgery paid for by the National Health Service at taxpayer expense 24 Instead Baker says she was told she was not gender dysphoric and that she would first need to live two years as a woman outside prison 24 She was allowed makeup but not regular estrogen for feminizing hormone therapy until in her desperation to transition she cut off her own testicles with a razor blade in 2017 2 24 12 In July 2019 Baker was the longest serving of approximately 140 out or publicly revealed transgender prisoners in England and Wales 4 42 of these were in women s prisons but not Baker who was in a Vulnerable Prisoners Unit at HM Prison Lewes 4 The expressed stance of the Prison Officers Association was that some inmates were genuinely gender dysphoric others were looking at it as a soft option for prison life 30 Baker wrote if constant bullying comments sexual harassment and isolation are your idea of a soft option then I d suggest you haven t really thought things through 4 When asked if she would have preferred a women s prison Baker denied it saying she liked sex with men which she would never get there 4 After release she wrote an article for Vice magazine about her experiences of love and sex as a transgender woman in male prison 31 After release editBaker was released on parole from prison in September 2019 2 12 32 Initially she lived in a bedsit supporting herself by street performance on her violin and selling posters of her embroidery online 4 In February 2020 her cross stitching was exhibited at the Brighton Museum amp Art Gallery s Queer the Pier exhibit dedicated to queer history 33 34 In 2022 her art appeared in an article in Architectural Review 35 By 2020 Baker set up an advocacy group called The Transprisoner Alliance to deliver support like letters and cosmetics to transgender prisoners 2 12 In 2021 she announced plans to contest the Richmond Park Parliament constituency on a platform of prison reform and opposing gentrification 6 36 She received Universal Credit a supplement for low income and attended many protests including some to support her partner a National Health Service nurse and Unite the Union representative 36 She carried a sign reading Kill JK Rowling to the June 2021 London Trans Pride parade 37 In January 2023 Baker criticised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak s blocking of the Gender Recognition Reform Scotland Bill 20 She led a protest at the inaugural event of gender critical feminist and philosopher Kathleen Stock s The Lesbian Project 38 Re imprisonment editAt 8 July 2023 London Trans Pride Parade Baker gave a speech to the crowd where she said if you see a TERF punch them in the fucking face a statement that was videotaped and widely distributed 39 Asked for their reaction London Trans Pride organisers said that We do not condone violence We do not back a call to arms for violence of any kind We do condone righteous anger 39 Baker s speech was reported to Metropolitan Police who initially stated that the call to violence was hypothetical but after investigating arrested her on 12 July for incitement to violence 40 41 According to the terms of her parole she was recalled to prison pending her trial 32 specifically to HMP Wandsworth a men s prison 42 Supporters led by Baker s partner launched a Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign online in July 32 43 and protested outside Westminster Magistrates Court in August 44 On 31 August 2023 she was found not guilty by magistrate Tan Ikram after she said that she was just trying to get on the front page of the Daily Mail and wished she could take her words back 45 46 As of 21 October 2023 she was still imprisoned now at HM Prison Isle of Wight and continued to be supported by protesters from the Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign 5 According to the Free Sarah Jane Baker campaign as of November 2023 Baker s oestrogen treatment has been stopped and she has instead been offered testosterone which the campaign says amounts to a medical detransition The healthcare practice providing services to the prison said this was a temporary measure while the healthcare team fulfils their duty of care to ensure that the benefits of any drugs we prescribe outweigh any risks 47 Bibliography editLife Imprisonment An Unofficial Guide writing as Alan Baker 8 July 2013 Waterside Press ISBN 978 1 904380 93 1 23 Transgender Behind Prison Walls writing as Sarah Baker Waterside Press 15 March 2017 Waterside Press ISBN 978 1909976450 24 Prison A Survival Guide chapter on the bureaucracy of gender transition in prison Carl Cattermole 20 June 2019 Penguin Books ISBN 978 1529103496 28 Borstal to Bedlam Poetry amp Prose from the Gutter to the Grave mid 2023 AKA Press 29 References edit With letters and lipstick a transgender prisoner helps those left inside a b c d e f g h i Finn Tom O Brian Cormac 11 March 2020 With letters and lipstick a transgender prisoner helps those left inside Reuters Retrieved 16 July 2023 Also available as Finn Tom O Brian Cormac 11 March 2020 With letters and lipstick a transgender prisoner helps those left inside OPENLY Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b c d e Andersson Jasmine Baker Sarah Jane 17 December 2019 I am the UK s longest serving transgender prisoner This is what I learned i Retrieved 14 July 2023 a b c d e f g Abraham Amelia 6 November 2019 What it s like to be trans in the UK prison system Dazed Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b Couldrey David 23 October 2023 DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE PRISON IN SUPPORT OF TRANS ACTIVIST SARAH JANE BAKER Island Echo Retrieved 25 October 2023 a b c d Askew Joshua 19 January 2022 Camberwell woman sets her sights on becoming UK s first trans gender MP Southwark News Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b Harrison Karen September 2017 Book Review Transgender Behind Prison Walls PDF Prison Service Journal 233 43 ISSN 0300 3558 Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b c Terror at the hands of sadists Folkestone Herald 15 September 1989 p 5 Retrieved 17 July 2023 Inmate gets life for murder bid Sandwell Evening Mail 31 October 1990 Retrieved 4 December 2023 Trial Lichfield and Rugeley Chase Post 26 July 1990 p 11 Retrieved 17 July 2023 a b c d Keate Georgie 4 August 2013 South Croydon woman talks about her close relationship with life prisoner who wants to have a sex change Croydon Advertiser Archived from the original on 24 August 2013 Retrieved 17 July 2023 a b c d Wakefield Lily 12 March 2020 Britain s longest serving trans prisoner is now helping trans people locked up in the wrong prisons PinkNews Retrieved 16 July 2023 Baker Alan January 2008 Dropping the masks Inside Time p 4 a b Prisoner boasts that he never wants to be freed The Telegraph 6 September 2009 Retrieved 17 July 2023 Two men abscond from open prison BBC News 13 April 2007 Retrieved 17 July 2023 Absconder from prison re arrested BBC News 19 April 2007 Retrieved 17 July 2023 Baker Allan September 2009 Home sweet home Inside Time p 7 Baker Sarah Jane 27 September 2018 Dennis Nilsen In memory of a Scrabble cheat Inside Time Retrieved 16 July 2023 HMP Full Sutton Evil Behind Bars Channel 5 30 November 2022 p Circa 31 00 and 56 00 Retrieved 11 September 2023 a b Ramirez Isabel 17 January 2023 Camberwell trans woman condemns PM s decision to block Scottish bill over safety concerns Southwark News Southwark News Retrieved 16 July 2023 Baker Alan July 2013 Life Imprisonment An Unofficial Guide Waterside Press ISBN 978 1 904380 93 1 a b Crossey Paul January 2014 Book Review Life Imprisonment An Unofficial Guide PDF Prison Service Journal 211 52 ISSN 0300 3558 Retrieved 17 July 2023 a b Booth Samantha September 2014 Book review Life Imprisonment An Unofficial Guide Probation Journal 61 3 300 301 doi 10 1177 0264550514545462a ISSN 0264 5505 S2CID 147501658 a b c d e Harris Mia 17 May 2017 An insider s guide to being transgender in prison The Independent Retrieved 16 July 2023 Also available as Harris Mia 17 May 2017 An insider s guide to being transgender in prison The Conversation Retrieved 16 July 2023 Wylie Laura September 2017 Book review Transgender Behind Prison Walls Probation Journal 64 3 293 294 doi 10 1177 0264550517724040b ISSN 0264 5505 S2CID 148628479 Retrieved 16 July 2023 Barstow Clare 27 February 2018 Book Review Transgender Behind Prison Walls Inside Time Retrieved 16 July 2023 Page Eric 29 November 2019 REVIEW Transgender behind Prison Walls by Sarah Jane Baker GScene Magazine Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b Cain Sian 19 June 2019 How to make salad dressing in prison the hit survival guide written by an inmate The Guardian Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b BORSTAL TO BEDLAM POETRY amp PROSE FROM THE GUTTER TO THE GRAVE by Sarah Jane Baker Good Press Retrieved 25 October 2023 Chhibber Ashley 28 July 2014 UK Prison officials concerned inmates may be identifying as transgender for a soft life PinkNews Retrieved 7 September 2023 Baker Sarah Jane Parszeniew Marta 4 February 2020 What Prison Taught Me About Love and Sex Vice Retrieved 16 July 2023 a b c Hansford Amelia 31 August 2023 Sarah Jane Baker supporters blame political games for arrest as trial begins PinkNews Retrieved 8 September 2023 Instagram Queer the Pier 18 February 2020 Retrieved 7 September 2023 Queer The Pier Gaydio March 2020 Retrieved 16 July 2023 Tellisi Bushra 29 March 2022 Outrage trans incarceration Architectural Review Retrieved 7 September 2023 a b Allingham Pol 12 April 2021 UK s longest serving transgender prisoner to run for Richmond Park MP South West Londoner Retrieved 16 July 2023 Martin Daniel 19 January 2023 Labour s Lisa Nandy suggests 13 year olds should be taken seriously if they want to change gender The Telegraph Retrieved 16 July 2023 Also available as Martin Daniel 19 January 2023 Labour s Lisa Nandy suggests 13 year olds should be taken seriously if they want to change gender The Telegraph MSN Retrieved 16 July 2023 Turner Janice 31 May 2023 We hid in a broom cupboard my mad day at Oxford with Kathleen Stock The Times Retrieved 17 July 2023 a b Perry Sophie 11 July 2023 London Trans Pride addresses punch TERFs speech and right wing backlash PinkNews Retrieved 16 July 2023 Montgomery Sam 13 July 2023 Trans activist arrested after telling rally of supporters to punch feminists GB News MSN Retrieved 14 July 2023 Hansford Amelia 13 July 2023 Woman arrested over punch TERFs speech at London Trans Pride PinkNews Retrieved 16 July 2023 Kirk Tristan 17 August 2023 Trans activist Sarah Jane Baker faces second criminal charge over Pride rally speech Evening Standard Retrieved 8 September 2023 Free Sarah Jane Baker Facebook 20 July 2023 Retrieved 8 September 2023 Billson Chantelle 17 August 2023 Sarah Jane Baker Protest held for political prisoner held in men s jail PinkNews Retrieved 8 September 2023 Reynolds Jordan 31 August 2023 Sarah Jane Baker Trans activist cleared of inciting violence BBC News Press Association Retrieved 8 September 2023 Reynolds Jordan 31 August 2023 Activist who told crowd punch a terf found not guilty of encouraging assault Evening Standard Retrieved 8 September 2023 Hansford Amelia 12 November 2023 Sarah Jane Baker prison treatment amounts to medical detransition PinkNews Latest lesbian gay bi and trans news LGBTQ news Retrieved 23 November 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