Control your bleeding, sluts
The Arizona Legislature is considering a bill that would provide incarcerated women with an unlimited supply of feminine hygiene products, including tampons, pads, cups and sponges.
Consider? As in, currently they limit them?
Currently, incarcerated women get 12 free pads each month. They must ask an officer if they need more, must pay for them, and may only possess up to 24 at a time. Unlike in other states, if they want tampons, they must buy them.
Ohhhhhh for god’s sake. Women can’t help how much they bleed. It’s not possible to control the flow to suit the number of pads available. Menstruating isn’t some whim that women have.
Numerous women testified how humiliating and frustrating the current situation is.
“Bloodstained pants, bartering and begging for pads and tampons was a regular occurrence,” Adrienne Kitcheyan said of her six years in Perryville.
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Former inmate Tuesday Brower said she usually wore two or three pads stacked on top of each other every day while she worked a yard-crew job so that she wouldn’t stain her pants.
“I would take the pad apart and make three tampons because it would hold better at work and I have received a ticket before for contraband because you’re not allowed to do that,” she said.
Kitcheyan said if blood stained a prisoner’s pants, she would be given a ticket for being out of dress code, which could result in her losing visitation rights, phone calls and the ability to purchase store items — including tampons and pads.
Sue Ellen Allen, who served seven years in Perryville, said officers can and do deny requests for more pads.
“The humiliation is really something you carry with you forever,” she said.
It sounds like something Arpaio dreamed up.
Arpaio and his ilk are the kind that suggest that women just “hold it in”, as if there were some kind of control. I forget the “lawmaker” who actually said that, but I know that there was one.
Wholly unreal. Get incarcerated as a female in Arizona and you become an enslaved, restricted animal.
How very intersectional – ‘tough on crime’ meets misogyny.
Way to provide an environment where women are implicitly encouraged to use individual santiary products for longer than medically recommended in order to make them last as long as necessary. I wonder if the those in charge could be held accountable for any cases of toxic shock syndrome that turn up in their infirmaries.
….haha, holding those in charge accountable? Such an outrageously hilarious concept!
Quod incarcerat incarceratores? Pig latin for those pigs.
More elephants please! And actual pigs too, of course. It’s the bad inverse anthropomorphs (choirinomorphii?) that I detest.
Several legislators said they were doubtful that a problem exists.
Like they would know, or care.
Distressingly, we have a related problem in the UK (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15819582._Women_must_have_dignity_in_police_custody____MP_backs_calls_for_better_sanitary_provision_at_police_stations/). Women in police custody are
As has already been pointed out, that lackadaisical attitude is actually DANGEROUS. Lack of hygien products can lead to TSS, toxic shock syndrome, which is potentially lethal.
That is why such irresponsible incarcerators belong on the inside of those bars. Seriously.
Twelve pads?!
At the risk of TMI that would last me between one and a half and two and a half days. Of a five to six day period. Assuming they were super-absorbent pads, not weedy little ones.
I guess the rest of the time I’m dripping (dripping? Ha! Flooding) all over the floor.
What’s the betting anyone who stains chairs or bunks gets disciplined?
Steamshovelmama, you are right. Women with bloodstained pants are “ticketed” that is given demerits and can lose rights to visitation or work shifts.