HB363 Alabama 2018 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

County jails and state penitentiaries, prisoners, sheriff and Dept. of Corrections, required to provide feminine hygiene products to female inmates under certain conditions, Secs. 14-3-44, 14-6-19 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the sheriff of a county must provide certain items, at the expense of the county, to prisoners who are unable to provide those items for themselves and all prisoners in a state penitentiary must be provided clothing during their imprisonment</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further require the sheriff and the Department of Corrections to provide feminine hygiene products for all female prisoners who are unable to provide them for themselves under certain conditions</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 14-3-44 and 14-6-19 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to items required to be provided to prisoners in a county jail or a state penitentiary; to further require the sheriff and the Department of Corrections to provide feminine hygiene products to female prisoners under certain conditions. </p>

Subjects

Jails