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Menstruation Weaponized Against Women in Prison
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2023
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2023, page 43
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Inadequate Health Care Facilities.
Location:
United States of America.
by Kevin W. Bliss
Writers Victoria Law and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff penned a Time magazine article on March 29, 2023, collecting accounts from female prisoners about difficulties dealing with menstruation while in prison. They found the current criminal justice system has weaponized menstruation, using it as a means to punish ...
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