A transgender inmate has been found dead in her cell at a men’s maximum security prison. Police are ruling suicide as the cause of death.

Joanne Latham, who has been presenting as female since August, was serving a life sentence for a string of attempted murders as well as attacked a fellow inmate. She was found unconscious in her cell at HM Prison Woodhill on Friday, and later pronounced dead.

She is the second trans inmate to die in a male prison in the UK in past month.

“HMP Woodhill prisoner Joanne Latham was found unresponsive on the morning of Friday November 27,” confirmed a statement from the prison.  “Staff and paramedics attempted resuscitation but she was pronounced dead at 6.20am.

“As with all deaths in custody there will be an investigation by the independent Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.”

Last month, a similar incident occurred in a West Yorkshire prison. Vicky Thompson was found dead in her cell on November 13. Before her death, she told her partner that she wanted to be transferred to a women’s prison.

Liberal Democrat Baroness Barker spoke about the death, stating that placing trans women in all-male prisons was dangerous.

“Prisoners should be housed in the estate of their acquired gender in the first instance, and only moved to the other estate following a thorough investigation that has ruled out all other safe alternatives,” she said.