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Jail Is a Terrible Place to Have a Period. One Woman Is on a Crusade to Make It Better.

“It’s a dignity thing.”

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ICE Is Sending Hundreds of Asylum-Seekers to a Private Prison in Mississippi

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“I just thought it was so beautiful and liberating to see someone being themselves.”

Text by Rosa Furneaux; Photos by Chloe Aftel