by Admin | Aug 16, 2019 | front page, Inmate Stories
8-7-19 3:34 PM Townhall Meeting Dateline Santa Maria: from a 70-year-old woman. “I told D.W. Compton that the elderly have special needs, as we cannot dissipate heat from our body. plus we take medications that make us even more susceptible to heat stroke. I...
by Admin | Aug 14, 2019 | front page, Inmate Stories
There are many stories on this website that are tragic but true. I want to submit a good story for a change. This is a conversation I recently had with my CO-III about the future of incarceration. He told me that he got into corrections “to make a positive...
by Admin | Jul 10, 2019 | front page, Inmate Stories
Dateline 6-27-19 – Five women on Santa Maria yard crew were forced to repair a broken water main by digging a 4-foot hole in the packed dirt. Office Stratling, the supervisor, refused to let them wear gloves, even though the gloves were available. He told the...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
For 3 months I’ve had a lump in my breast with a greenish discharge from the nipple. Corizon (Medical) won’t get a biopsy for it because “it’s too expensive and it’s probably a cyst anyway.” How large will it have to be before...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
Death isn’t just for the old, they kill the young too, P. was a 20-year-old vibrant young woman when she arrived at the prison. After a few months, she grew more fatigued and tired. For 5 months she begged Medical to take lab tests to find out what was wrong...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Health, Inmate Stories
I was K.T.s neighbor. We’d lived next door to each other for two years amd became friends. K.T. was 62 years old, walked with a cane, but was otherwise healthy. We first thought she had come down with the flu, but her coughing and respiratory distress lingered...
