incarceration

This oral history project shows how prisons weaponize menstruation -- violating the right to menstruate with dignity and making menstrual products inaccessible to those who are incarcerated.

Abortion bans criminalize pregnant people. This NPR piece explains how, and traces the history of criminalizing pregnancy over the last 50 years.

What are the consequences of the Dobbs decision on incarcerated people? This Q&A fact sheet reviews the availability of reproductive health care in prisons and jails.

This abolitionist feminist essay articulates how the legal system often criminalizes survivors.

KH explains what it’s like to be a woman in prison experiencing a shortage of menstrual hygiene products.

KH addresses her desire to discuss menstrual hygiene and incarceration, which stems from her personal experience and advocacy work.

KH discusses the challenges menstruating people face in jail because they aren't provided with a sufficient number of menstruation products.

KH discusses her work lobbying and advocating for a menstrual products bill that would benefit women who are incarcerated.

A thorough overview of younger, older, and trans women in immigrant detention and solitary confinement in the U.S., including policy recommendations.

Vera Institute’s Initiative to End Girls’ Incarceration explains the link between childhood sexual abuse and incarceration of girls, LGBQ/TGNC youth.

This fact sheet gathers information about sexual violence, including at schools and as experienced by marginalized women and girls.

Chandra Bozelko, a formerly incarcerated woman, explains how far too many people are denied access to menstrual products while in prison.