When period products are not adequately supplied, incarcerated women are forced to live in unsanitary, life-threatening conditions. To find out more about period poverty in Oklahoma prisons, I interviewed April Wilkens, who is currently incarcerated at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center. She described the many, predominantly financial, barriers inmates face in accessing period and other hygiene products essential to health and dignity. When there are delays in orders or lockdowns, women may be left with no access to period products at all. Other incarcerated women have told gruesome stories about the strip searches mandatory for visitation, during which period products must be removed and are not reissued.