Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Corrections
 
Board
State Board of Local and Regional Jails
 
chapter
Minimum Standards for Jails and Lockups [6 VAC 15 ‑ 40]
Action Amend current 6VAC15-40-770 to require that feminine hygiene items be provided to female inmates without charge
Stage Fast-Track
Comment Period Ended on 12/26/2018
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12/6/18  2:04 pm
Commenter: Seth Peters

Recognition of basic human decency
 
As per my title, these changes give female prisoners back their basic human decency. No prisoner should have to live as some have had to. Also, here's a comment another poster put that I feel is very correct: ALL women deserve hygienic methods of dealing with their own biological processes, and making these NEEDS unavailable and ternate options potentially punishable is an egregious injustice by the State. Make it happen. Incarceration should not strip people of their humanity to this extent. Do right by these women, we demand it.
CommentID: 68851