by Editor | Sep 6, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure, Inmate Stories
It’s 115 degrees outside, add 7 degrees more for urban heat syndrome, caused by nothing but cement and asphalt in PeeVille. This is a killer heat wave for all the women incarcerated in medium and closed custody. I survived 11 summers on Lumley, Cruz and Maria...
by Editor | Aug 27, 2022 | front page, Inmate Stories
Your 73-year-old reporter is on week 2 of San Carlos, and I’m starting to look past the wonders of air conditioning. I’m sure readers that have never been in Perryville, wonder why I’m so enthralled with a/c. To them…please read the archives of...
by Editor | Aug 23, 2022 | front page, Inmate Stories
This is one woman’s journey from Medium custody to Minimum custody.–Ed. “Winston Churchill famously said, ‘If you’re going through Hell…keep on going.’ That would be true of my 13 years in Perryville’s medium custody...
by Editor | Aug 1, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure, Inmate Stories
(Letter from Cruz resident.) “I sat on the cement bench outside Medical, trying to position myself to get the maximum breeze from the portable cooler. I counted 13 women on chairs in front of Visitation, about 100 feet away. Then I started counting...
by Editor | Aug 1, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure
You’ve heard the old refrain, “Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the hot sun.”. Pity the poor women at Sana Cruz unit under Deputy Warden Salas. She makes the women stand in 115f heat waiting for gates to open at the yard gate AND the...
by Editor | Jul 29, 2022 | front page, Inmate Stories
(Op-ed from 73 year old medium custody inmate) Two man cells on medium units have 2 narrow windows in the back of the room. It is proven science that covering the windows from the sun, with curtains or shutters, reduces the indoor temperature by 20%. These cells have...
