The initiative of the PVEM parliamentary group (GPPVEM), coordinated by the parliamentarian José Alberto Couttolenc Buentello, establishes that the state health system must implement public policies that guarantee free access to hygiene supplies for all menstruating persons deprived of liberty.
The proposal seeks to ensure that this sector can travel its menstruation without conditions of risk, shame or unhealthiness in the prison centers.
To contribute to the improvement of the health and dignity of women deprived of their liberty, the parliamentary group of the PVEM (GPPVEM) raised reforms so that the state health system designs and implements public policies that guarantee free access to hygiene supplies to menstruating persons in prisons.
According to the initiative to reform the state administrative code, it is sought to ensure that women deprived of their liberty can travel their menstruation without risk conditions, shame or unhealthiness; and reduce the economic burden that implies the acquisition of these products, recognizing that many of them live in conditions of poverty and social exclusion even within prison.
The document, of which its reading was obvious in session of the Permanent Diputación, adds that it is intended to strengthen the human rights approach and the gender perspective in prison policies, correcting historical conditions that have perpetuated structural inequalities.
It emphasizes that, for the PVEM bench, promoting this type of policies reaffirms the commitment to social justice, with a human face and with gender equality, so, from a public health and gender equity perspective, it is urgent to implement comprehensive policies that ensure free, sufficient and constant access to menstrual hygiene products, drinking water, adequate bathrooms, analgesics and timely medical care.
The initiative shares that 72 percent of the entity’s prison centers faces female overpopulation, and that there is only an exclusive penitentiary for women, which means that 95 percent of the centers are not designed to properly serve menstrual management.
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