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Maine Man Housed in Women’s Prison After 2024 Aggravated Assault and Drug Trafficking Charges

Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotMay 2, 2025Updated:May 2, 202515 Comments2 Mins Read2K Views
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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.

[RELATED: Trans-Identifying Murderer Given Taxpayer-Funded Sex Change Drugs Alleges Mistreatment and Wants Sentence Reduction and Transfer to Women’s Prison…]

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.

Mugshot Showing Bushey following his 2024 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.

Mugshot of Bushey following his 2023 arrest

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.

[RELATED: DOJ Pulls Federal Funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections for Housing a Dangerous, Biological Male in a Women’s Prison…]

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Seamus Othot

Seamus Othot is a reporter for The Maine Wire. He grew up in New Hampshire, and graduated from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, where he was able to spend his time reading the great works of Western Civilization. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Knot nice
10 months ago

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10 months ago

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10 months ago

Fine, cut his genitals totally off and his fingers now he can be in the women’s jail.

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10 months ago

Like I said :
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Butch Asselin
Butch Asselin
10 months ago

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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10 months ago

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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