Republican state rep votes against ensuring free menstrual products in prison, says it's not 'a country club'
Earlier this month legislators in Maine voted on a bill amendment that would guarantee incarcerated people access to menstrual products. It's a good idea: While a federal law ensures that federal prisons offer free pads and tampons, that's not the case at state and local facilities, where supplies are often limited and women are forced to either devise their own solutions or scrounge together funds to purchase the items at the commissary.
Alex Acquisto, a statehouse reporter for The Bangor Daily News, quoted Pickett in a tweet. Per Acquisto's account, Pickett argued that women already have all the menstrual products they need. According to the Press Herald, several jails in Maine already provide free menstrual products, but incarcerated women have to request them. The proposed legislation would make the pads and tampons more freely available, and there would be no limit on the number that women could have at one time.
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