by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Smoking
A guard stationed at complex escorted a patient to Santa Cruz Medical. He stepped one foot out of Medical and promptly lit up his cigarette in front of other patients waiting outside. Several of us are asthmatics and told the guard to go someplace else, as this was a...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Infrastructure
On Santa Cruz, 16 yard, upper “B” pod, the shower floor moves under our feet! This is the same area that water constantly runs from the top floor, through the cement onto the floor below. The steel girders are rusted out, debris is falling to the ground in...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health
Three of our younger women on one yard have green fluid exuding from their breast/nipple. All medical does is prescribe and antibiotic withour testing to find the root cause. The other yards at Santa Cruz are reporting the same problem. Why is this so prevalent in...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Infrastructure
Original plans called for one kitchen per yard, about 192 inmates. Around 2009 the prison population reached critical mass. Two kitchens per unit ( on a 4-yard unit) were gutted so they could move in bunk beds and stack human beings like cord wood. This left only two...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
For 3 months I’ve had a lump in my breast with a greenish discharge from the nipple. Corizon (Medical) won’t get a biopsy for it because “it’s too expensive and it’s probably a cyst anyway.” How large will it have to be before...
