https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/opinion/why-are-womens-prisons-passing-out-condoms/Why are women’s prisons in California passing out condoms?
Sex is illegal in every prison. Sex between inmates or sex with guards is strictly prohibited. So why then, did Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) recently mount contraceptive dispensers full of colorful, flavored condoms in every dayroom just last month?
When you become state property, you lose your right to consent. I would know — I’ve been through it. Upon imprisonment, women are told “no means no” and “yes is not allowed.”
There’s a collective understanding — sex is strictly prohibited on all counts behind bars, right? That was, until California passed AB 999 in 2013, requiring all prisons to furnish condoms for inmates by 2019.
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Naturally, men began to infiltrate women’s prisons. The ballpark count is at least 40, but it’s hard to be sure because California refuses to publish this data and gives men the option of acquiring a new state identification number to reduce stigma.
The floodgates have opened for men with histories of violence against women — often including charges such as aggravated rape — to transfer into women’s general population facilities.
