One of the things Alissa Moore remembers clearly from her time in prison is how the guards taunted her when she asked for a tampon.
Sometimes they’d outright refuse. Other times they'd ask her to come to a closet or a back room, where she said, on several occasions, she was sexually assaulted. If she wanted to avoid that humiliation, Moore could buy extra tampons from the commissary. But a box cost $7, and prisoners earned as little as 8 cents an hour in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Sometimes, that meant Moore had to trade food for tampons.
This time, it was a second-degree murder charge for the killing of her boyfriend, who she said had abused her. In 1997, she was sentenced to 15 years to life. As a teenager in a California prison, Moore said her period became a monthly anxiety. She was given about a dozen tampons and a dozen pads each month, though the exact number varied based on supply and was up to the discretion of the guards.
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