My guess is because the rules were written by men without any input from women.
Basically, prisoners are responsible for purchasing their own sanitary supplies (among other things), men and women.
It's women, who wrote guidelines about how to treat women, and came up with guidelines worse than guidelines that a bunch of old stodgy men in congress came up with yesterday.
That's a real problem. And it's a problem that we need to try to solve in "Second Step".
I mean, why even have female administrators and wardens putting this stuff together, if they are just going to get their cushy jobs and sit there and try to out "man" the men? The entire reason you're there is to supposedly bring a different sensibility.
What's unstated in placing those requirements in this bill, is how much of a dismal failure our hiring programs have been in bringing in people, (men OR women), with different sensibilities. Whether they are male or female, black, white, asian, or hispanic, these positions seem to attract the same sort of people. People who look at the way things are done, and don't see any problem with it.
We need to start looking past identity politics and start seeing that issue.