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Please refrain from deliberately misreading my comments.

Sexual assault and rape is terrible, no matter who the perpetrator or victim is. On this, I assume we agree.

The issue here is policy changes that remove one of the most important safeguarding measures to prevent this in the prison system: segregation by sex, so that all male inmates have no physical access to any female inmates.

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> On this, I assume we agree.

I am glad. There is no intent to misread, hence my caveat between the commas and the tilde: this is merely how I did perceive it.

> one of the most important safeguarding measures to prevent this in the prison system

I assert, and I thought demonstrated, that this does not in fact seem to be an effective safeguard.

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It is an effective safeguard for protecting female prisoners from male prisoners.

There are different safeguards within each prison to protect prisoners from others of the same sex. VPUs for example.