by Assist. Editor | Jan 2, 2021 | front page, Inmate Stories
January 1, 2021, approximately 8:30 am women on A yard were locked down amid a flurry of staff activity. Shortly, an ambulance and firetruck were parked outside A yard. The inmates watching outside their windows knew it was bad news when the paramedics slowly left the...
by Editor | Dec 22, 2020 | front page, Inmate Stories
Our readers who have been in Perryville know about this shameful fact. There is a large population of 65+ ladies in prison due to Arizona’s draconian sentencing laws. Here is a letter we received recently from a 71-year-old at Lumley Unit. “I was initially...
by Assist. Editor | Dec 16, 2020 | front page, Inmate Stories
Messages share with us that we have permission to share with you “My friend just informed me that the past 2 days there has been no heat in her cell. It’s 36 degrees outside and the metal doors suck any and all heat out of the rooms. the prison refuses to...
by Assist. Editor | Dec 7, 2020 | front page, Infrastructure
Ah, life in the funny farm. The padded cell. Men in white coats. Butterfly nets. All the old jokes about where the mentally ill are stashed. Arizona stashes them in PRISON! Yep, dogs in kennels are treated better than these poor unfortunates. In fact, the cages where...
by Assist. Editor | Dec 7, 2020 | front page, Inmate Stories
Our staff has gotten so much mail from this Unit, we have to share what the inmates are alleging in their own words. “Everything is broken on Lumley! No one can access WiFi, we run around like chickens looking for a hotspot. We can’t even open our tablets...
by Assist. Editor | Nov 30, 2020 | COVID-19, front page, Infrastructure
Two articles worth your attention and a reality check from someone on the inside:2 supervisors are fired 1 charged with assaulting inmate 11-21-20 How virus spread in Tucson prison unit 11-22-20 The LIES. 1) Stop internal movement of inmates, deep clean every week,...
