Male prisoners should be allowed make up!

The Constitutional Court has rules this week that male prisoners in Germany should have the same rights as female prisoners and be able to spend their jail income on cosmetics such as make up and clarins products. A male prisoner who is currently serving a 15 year sentence and who also surprisingly has decided to keep his identity hidden from his fellow inmates appealed against prison policy claiming that this was gender discrimination. Kai Zimmermann who is the lawyer for the prisoner told the BBC that his client had fought the ruling as he wanted to be able to buy and use products such as moisturiser but prison policy was not allowing him to. Until the ruling only women were able to spend up to £25($50) a month of their jail income on such products.
The court ruling will be seen as many as another example of prisoners rights gone to far.
The judge commented, "Members of one sex cannot be denied their cosmetics choices simply because they are more typically found among the opposite sex." He then went on to say, “Although the interest in cosmetics may be more widespread or frequently stronger among women than among men, it is not a biologically determined interest among women.” The prisoner claimed that if he wanted to use products such as clarins makeup then that is his right to, the case will now go to a lower court where the Prison will have the chance to argue and overturn the ruling based and security concerns, this may also lead to copycat cases across Europe and in America. Also in the trial the judge rules the male prisoners should have the same rights as females inmates when it comes to the use of phones as the men's wing did not have a private room for which to use the phone.