A lawyer representing transgender prisoner Glen Cooper will apply to the Parole Board to have have her released next April.
Cooper was sentenced to two years and one month jail after pleading guilty to wounding with intent to injure on January 17 when she struck a man on the head with a wine bottle.
Judge Duncan Harvey said in recognition of the difficulties Cooper would face in a men's prison he reduced the sentence by 15 per cent and another 15 per cent reduction was given for an early guilty plea. Lawyer Kelly Ellis had asked for a home detention sentence but when it came to sentencing in the Whangarei District Court on Wednesday no suitable address had been supplied to the court.
Ms Ellis said when Cooper became eligible for parole in April 2013, as she had already been in custody waiting for sentence since the beginning June, an application for release would be made.
Ms Ellis said Cooper was in the high risk unit in prison but would then progress to segregation. She did not consider that suitable.