Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

“Why are they doing women like this? Are we the weaker sex?” Mishunda Davis told Truthout in a call from Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’s largest women’s prison. In 2022, the state passed legislation making menstrual products free for anyone incarcerated in Illinois prisons. Despite the law, Davis and others run out each month. Menstrual care — or the lack of it — gets little attention…

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