by Editor | Jan 20, 2020 | Infrastructure
DO905 section 4.0, effective Dec. 2, 2019: To be “indigent” an inmate needs to have less than $8.00 on their account. (It used to be $12.) “All indigent inmates charged for indigent supplies. The charges will remain a debt on their account until paid...
by Editor | Jan 15, 2020 | front page, Inmate Stories
Ms. G arrived at Santa Maria R&A on October 23, 2019. She was 8-months pregnant. The staff did not give her prenatal vitamins or diet because the “paperwork” had not come in yet. She was taken to the hospital on October 27 and delivered her baby on the 28th....
by Editor | Jan 14, 2020 | Food
Dateline: Complex kitchen. Four women we heard from, swear that this is what goes on where they work at Complex. This is their claim: “On pizza day, the dough that is left on flat pans to rise are left in the hall where flies land all over it.” We can not...
by Editor | Jan 13, 2020 | front page, Smoking
The new FDA law went into effect 12-20-2019, but fines will not be imposed for 6 months. How will Keefe, the tobacco supplier to inmates in Arizona, be in compliance? Will AZ prisons finally catch up with the rest of the nation and go smoke-free?
by Editor | Jan 7, 2020 | front page, Infrastructure
We received a letter from two inmates who saw and spoke to Sgt. deLeon on 12-24-19. The Sgt was inspecting the old shack that held the bathroom facilities for the tents erected on the Santa Maria unit around 2002-2005. When the two women asked if tent city was coming...
