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Virginia Backtracks On Tampon Ban For Prison Visitors

The policy, meant to discourage the smuggling of contraband into prisons, was to have gone into effect next month.

The Virginia Department of Corrections has decided to hold off implementing a controversial new policy that would have barred women from visiting state prisons wearing tampons or menstrual cups.

As reported on Monday, the policy

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