by Victoria Law | Jun 4, 2026 | Health, incarcerated women, Mass Incarceration, News, Prisons, women's prisons
“Why are they doing women like this? Are we the weaker sex?” Mishunda Davis told Truthout in a call from Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’s largest women’s prison. In 2022, the state passed legislation making menstrual products free for anyone incarcerated in Illinois prisons. Despite the law, Davis and others run out each month. Menstrual care — or the lack of it — gets little attention…
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by Victoria Law | Mar 24, 2026 | incarcerated women, Mass Incarceration, News, Prisons, Voting Rights
The first bill that Tarra Simmons passed restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated Washingtonians. That was in 2021, the year after she was elected Washington’s first formerly incarcerated state representative. “That was my freshman bill,” she told Truthout. The following year, the state passed her bill to expand housing assistance vouchers from three to six months for people…
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