It doesn’t matter what Unit she lives in, doesn’t matter the custody level, the only sure thing she can count on is, that the guards will lose her stuff when she returns from her hospital stay. The time it takes Perryville prison to “find” the inmate’s lost property varies….sometimes 48 hours, sometimes a week, sometimes never.
Broken TVs are a popular item for the sick and injured to come home to. Inmates pay an exorbitant $230 price for a $35 monitor only to find it smashed when they return. The prison doesn’t pay for a new TV when they lose it or break it….oh no…they only give a sliding scale based on depreciation back to the inmate. If they decide the TV is only worth $45, then that’s all she gets back toward another new TV. Of course, that’s only after she’s waited a month and submitted reams of paper.
What we find to be particularly egregious, is not only don’t they supply the inmate’s personal property, but they don’t supply the BASIC items she needs like a mattress, sheets, blanket, and pillow! We have an email from a lady who watched her friend return from the hospital, with absolutely nothing but the wheelchair she was sitting in! At 4pm a guard wheeled this elderly woman into her empty cube…and walked away!!! Some girls ran him down and asked about the lady’s mattress and bedding, reportedly he said, “She’ll get something tomorrow.”. What about tonight??!!! It takes a village. The women in the bay rounded up a mattress, sheet, blankets, fresh clothes, soap and toilet paper for the poor woman they found out had just gotten out of intensive care. The prison expected her to sleep sitting up all night in her wheelchair??
Man’s inhumanity to man (woman).