Women & girls in US #prisons & #jails are provided a limited number of tampons or pads monthly. The quality is so poor, women end up making their own, since products in commissaries are priced above retail & people in prison earn an average $1/day. >thread motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
AZ charges prisoners $4 to see a doctor & requires women get a dr's note before providing them more than the basic limit of pads or tampons.
NC prisoners pay $5 to see the nurse before getting approval to see the doctor for $5 more.
Prisoners earn an average $1/day.
NC prisoners pay $5 to see the nurse before getting approval to see the doctor for $5 more.
Prisoners earn an average $1/day.
“When I’m making 9 cents [an hour] after tax, you really got to think if I want to put my whole month’s income into hopefully being approved for extra pads, if they believe I deserve them,” Adrienne Kitcheyan told AZ lawmakers (Mother Jones 2/2019).
At .09 per hour, people incarcerated by Arizona must work 44.5 hours to afford to see the doctor. That's the equivalent of charging someone who earns $10/hour $445 for 1 primary-care appointment.
Even after fed prisons were required to provide menstrual supplies, at least 1 fed prison in WV still charged women $5 for 20 tampons but paid them $5.25/month.
That's the equivalent of charging someone who earns $10/hr $166.66 for 20 tampons (price on Amazon: $3.83).
That's the equivalent of charging someone who earns $10/hr $166.66 for 20 tampons (price on Amazon: $3.83).
When the #Maine legislature debated a bill to ensure all women in state jails & prisons have access to adequate menstrual products, a #Republican lawmaker & police chief said he opposed the bill because "the correctional system was never meant to be a country club." 
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