38-year old Joanne Latham has become the latest transgender prisoner to die while serving time inside an all-male prison. According to a Prison Service report obtained by the BBC, Latham – who was imprisoned after being charged with attempted murder – barricaded the doors of her cell and hung herself at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes.

It is the second case of its kind in recent weeks. Vikki Thompson was found dead in her cell at Armley prison in Leeds, having warned friends that she’d kill herself if she was sent there. Tara Hudson is another trans prisoner who, having originally been sentenced to serve in an all-male prison, was recently moved to a women’s prison following a campaign.

After Thompson died, the government announced that it was reevaluating its policy on transgender prisoners and "reviewing prison service instruction". In Dazed, Sean Faye argued that current prison regulations were dangerous and failing trans prisoners:

“In the case of trans prisoners, the unease around removing the oppressive legal framework stems from hypothetical scaremongering and an often dehumanising preoccupation with genitalia  – could male sexual predators simply declare their gender identity to be female to enter a women’s prison? Isn’t the prison divide on biological sex necessary for safety?”

A Prison Service spokesperson has said that there will be an investigation into Latham’s death.