For more than eight months, Hawks, 43, had been held in the women’s section As for how Hawks’ organ went unnoticed earlier, Lamb said, "All we from A convicted marijuana grower has told prison authorities he is a man – after spending more than eight months locked up with women. An inquiry has been launched after Billie Jo Hawks told wardens at Kentucky’s Correctional Institution for Women … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/hawksmug.jpg\")
\n <\/em>A convicted marijuana grower has told prison authorities he is a man
\n – after spending more than eight months locked up with women. An inquiry
\n has been launched after Billie Jo Hawks told wardens at Kentucky’s Correctional
\n Institution for Women that a mistake had been made.<\/p>\n
\n of a detention center after having been convicted of growing and trafficking
\n marijuana. All inmates are subject to a thorough strip search as part of
\n the admission process to any state prison to ensure no contraband is brought
\n into prison, Lamb said. <\/p>\n
\n can say for now is that clearly procedures were not followed in the admission
\n of this inmate." <\/p>\n
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