A transgender prisoner has been found dead in her cell at a maximum security men’s jail.

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Joanne Latham, who was serving life sentences for a string of attempted murders including an attack on a fellow prisoner, was pronounced dead at HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes on Friday.

Latham, formerly known as Edward, is understood to have identified herself as female since August and is the second transgender inmate to have died in an all-male prison in recent weeks.

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