A violent male criminal using the name Ashley Lynn Bushey, 54, is currently being housed in a women’s prison following a series of drug trafficking and assault arrests.
According to the Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) records, Bushey has previously gone by the names Jason Robert Bushey and Dale Michael Norwood.
Bushey, a six-foot-two man, is serving a minimum five-year sentence at the Maine Correctional Women’s Center in Windham following an April 25, 2024, arrest for burglary, elevated aggravated assault, criminal threatening, and a probation violation from an earlier arrest.
At that time, Bushey had already begun portraying himself as a woman and was marked as female on official arrest records. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated assault, though all but 84 months of that sentence were suspended.
In addition to aggravated assault, Bushey also has a history of drug-related offenses.
In May 2023, he was arrested on aggravated drug trafficking charges, while allegedly violating his conditional release and operating a vehicle travelling more than 30 miles per hour over the speed limit after two prior license revocations.
Bushey isn’t the only violent man being held in women’s prison in the state.
In 2022, Andrew T. Balcer, 26, was transferred to a women’s prison after the prison system reclassified him as female upon his request, following the stabbing deaths of his parents and their dog in 2017.
Both Balcer and Bushey pose a significant potential risk to the female prisoners, who now face the threat of violence and rape from much physically stronger men, possibly violating their 8th Amendment constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment.
Maine has persisted in allowing males into women’s prisons, even after the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month that it would be pulling all non-essential funding from the Maine DOC in response to the policy.
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I hear mills is advocating for his early release so he can fill the resent opening at the Waterville HS
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What a ugly broad!
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Fine, cut his genitals totally off and his fingers now he can be in the women’s jail.
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I remember Jason well from his North Avenue days in Skowhegan. Run ins with law enforcement was quite common for him even at an early age, I would have never expected this though…
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I wonder if the Governor had a sister in the same prison if she would think this policy is “just right.”
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