Transgender Murder Convict Denied Bid to Stay in Womens Prison Following Threats to Inmates and Staff

The Grand Valley Institution for Women in Waterloo, Ont., is shown on May 1, 2008. The Canadian Press/Geoff RobinsA transgender prisoner serving time for the murder of a 13-year-old Edmonton girl has lost a court bid to stay in a women’s prison.Michael Williams, who now goes by the name Michelle Autumn, was given a life sentence in 2007 for the first degree murder of the 13-year-old, who was lured from the West Edmonton Mall to a golf course, where she was sexually assaulted and then killed. Autumn was 17 years old at the time and was sentenced as an adult.