Girl Code™
Girl Code™
Mission: Eliminating period poverty for incarcerated women and girls.
Access to quality menstrual products and having products in proper supply is a national public health issue for incarcerated women and girls. This leads to increased instances of toxic shock syndrome, emergency hysterectomies, infertility, infections, and other reproductive ailments among those who are the most vulnerable.
Through the Girl Code initiative (TM Pending), the first program of its kind in the United States, The Thurman Perry Foundation provides donations of organic, cotton, chlorine-free, dye-free, fragrance-free, and pesticide-free menstrual products monthly to the women housed at 10 facilities in Louisiana, Texas, Maine, South Carolina, and New York: Orleans Parish Justice Center, East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, Louisiana Correctional Facility for Women, A New Way of Life New Orleans, Southern Maine Women’s Reentry Center, Albion Correctional Facility, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, Taconic Correctional Facility, Oconee County Detention Center, and Eden’s Place, A non-correctional Juvenile residential facility.
TPF, in conjunction with the Orleans Parish Justice Center, East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, Louisiana Correctional Facility for Women, A New Way of Life New Orleans, Southern Maine Women’s Reentry Center, Albion Correctional Facility, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, Taconic Correctional Facility, Oconee County Detention Center, and Eden’s Place, A non-correctional Juvenile residential facility is proud to assist incarcerated women and girls with getting the period care products they need.
Our vision is to expand the initiative nationwide by 2030, so that no incarcerated woman goes without necessary feminine hygiene products.
Products Donated
Women & Girls Helped
The Facts
Women incarcerated in local, state, youth, tribal detention, military, or federal correctional facilities.
Age of the majority of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons.
The average number of feminine hygiene products a menstruating woman will use over the course of her lifetime.
Number of states with no laws mandating that incarcerated women be given menstrual products while housed in correctional facilities.
Menstrual Mitigation Measures™
Periods in Prison: A 4-Part Workshop
In conjunction with PERIOD, a global youth-fueled nonprofit, TPF has created a 4-part workshop series about period poverty and menstrual equity in U.S. correctional facilities. This groundbreaking curriculum is designed to inform learners of how period poverty uniquely impacts incarcerated women & girls using extensive research done by The Thurman Perry Foundation & PERIOD.
The Thurman Perry Foundation Needs You
With 95% of those incarcerated destined to come home, The Thurman Perry Foundation is committed to ensuring successful reentry for women and girls through direct financial and educational support.
Help us change the lives of women & girls impacted by incarceration Nationwide by donating today!
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Founded in memory of late U.S. Army Master Sergeant Thurman Perry Jr., The Thurman Perry foundation was created by his daughter, Gabrielle Perry, MPH, to support women and girls impacted by incarceration. We are a 501c(3) nonprofit organization. EIN 86-2519876.
