Their Patrician Rooms had enlarged makeup mirrors, women's magazines and breast exam cards in the showers.

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The president's comments come two days after a sergeant was accused of filming women in the showers at the US military academy at West Point, the latest in a series of such incidents.

BBC: Obama tells Navy class culture of sex assault must end

The latest report on the largest women's prison in the country found that its inmates were only allowed to have showers twice a week, even those who were pregnant or had recently given birth.

ECONOMIST: Prisons