27-03-2018 12:52 via baltimore.cbslocal.com

No Tampons In Prison? #MeToo Helps Shine Light On Issue

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Kimberly Haven couldn’t get the feminine hygiene products she needed in Maryland’s only prison for women while serving a 15-month sentence, so she made her own using toilet paper. She said that after her release in 2015, she suffered toxic shock syndrome and needed an emergency hysterectomy.
“Toxic shock, emergency hysterectomies — it runs the gamut of how women are forced to pay for, with their very health, our bad policies and our inattention
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