by Editor | Sep 16, 2022 | COVID-19, front page, Infrastructure, Inmate Stories
(This is a composite of 3 interviews with women that spent quarantine time on Lumley. It’s amazing how similar the stories are-Ed.) ” The cell they threw me in was filthy and looked like it had never been cleaned. A dirty room is where the DOC puts its...
by Editor | Sep 14, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure
As the OB/GYN handed me my first bag of diapers, I said “I knew this day would come.” If you are following the previous stories about Charley Bay, you know it is an extension of IPC and the SNU. This is where the DOC stores its minimum elderly, infirm,...
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 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 28, 2022 | front page, Infrastructure, Inmate Stories
Last week the biggest volume of complaints from PeeVille was the lack of temperature checks, as required by policy, for non-air-conditioned rooms on Lumley and Santa Cruz. As reported by the Arizona Republic, Perryville has been allotted millions of dollars to FINALLY...
