Prison workers and former inmates contradicted Florida's claim that it has zero tolerance for denying hygiene products to incarcerated women, describing repeated violations of the policy as lawmakers weigh stricter rules on corrections facilities
Prison workers and former inmates contradicted the state’s claim that it has zero tolerance for denying hygiene products to incarcerated women, describing repeated violations of the policy as lawmakers weigh stricter rules on corrections facilities.
“I’ve seen some COs that just didn’t want to give them anything,” McSeaton said in an interview with POLITICO. “Throughout the whole day, no matter how many people asked, they just didn’t give it to them.” The state’s three public facilities provide women with basic hygiene products, including toilet paper, soap and pads, on a schedule. If an inmate needs more than she’s allotted, she must ask a corrections officer to grant more.
Stephanie Blackwood, a former corrections officer from the Florida Women’s Reception Center, said she’s seen hygiene products denied to inmates, but she said it’s not always malicious. “Prison is a different environment, so the top dog is going to get the pads. All of them,” McSeaton said.The House bill’s sponsor, Rep. Shevrin Jones , said he hasn’t spoken to any corrections officers, but said the open-area distribution issue is “something the department can work out.”The state bills are modeled on the Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act proposed in Congress in 2017. That effort failed, but Jones has confidence his measure can win support in the Legislature.
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