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12.16.2025
Your insights will assist inform a information concerning the essential life stage that we’ll share with incarcerated folks.
As soon as relegated to hushed conversations with shut buddies or the gynecologist’s workplace, perimenopause and menopause are actually publicly (and proudly) mentioned within the information, on discuss exhibits, at state legislatures, and in TikTok feeds. The groundswell is partially because of new understanding of easy methods to deal with menopause signs, and the advertising and marketing of latest merchandise to assist girls stay wholesome, satisfying lives as they transition.
Whereas many ladies within the U.S. now have entry to extra menopause assets than ever earlier than, one group hasn’t benefited from the sea-change: these in jail. For incarcerated girls — a inhabitants that elevated by greater than 600% between 1980 and 2023 — the void of knowledge and help poses distinctive challenges.
From restricted menstrual merchandise, to subpar well being care, to disciplinary infractions incurred whereas making an attempt to handle signs, folks enduring this transition whereas locked up say they want much more assist than most jail programs are providing.
The Marshall Undertaking is exploring all of the methods menopause and perimenopause have an effect on girls behind bars. If you’re a girls’s well being professional, previously incarcerated, present healthcare or different help to folks in jail, or are a relative or pal of somebody presently going via menopause behind bars — we wish to hear from you. Your insights can assist us bridge the menopause data hole for incarcerated girls by informing a information that we’ll make obtainable to incarcerated folks.
Any responses are voluntary, and we won’t use your identify or any figuring out particulars you share with out your permission. A reporter from The Marshall Undertaking could attain out to you for extra data.
