“There’s certainly a fear among advocates that scarcity in soap at this moment, when hand-washing can be a life-saving measure, could give staff perpetrators even more power than they already have.”
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Insufficient sanitary supplies have led to a dangerous power dynamic between incarcerated women and staff inside facilities where every year,. “When sanitary items aren’t available, it gives leverage to abusive staff,” said Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, communications director at Just Detention International , a health and human rights organization advocating to end sexual abuse in all forms of detention.
Prisons, jails, and detention centers are largely dysfunctional facilities that are unable to provide even base-level care for incarcerated women, who are now put in the position of worrying not only for their own health, but also for that of their children and families on the outside.
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