Within the last week and a half, I have interviewed inmates from Piestawa and Rosa, AND an officer from there. It appears that this mean-spirited and draconian rule of making women wait an hour or more to urinate is just a Carlos rule.
This is my question to the officer: Q. “Does the staff at Pie and Rosa make the women sit in their cube until count clears completely before they can use the toilet?” A. “No, that’s nonsense. After the Bay officer crosses them off for count they can use the restroom. As a crossover I know that Carlos tries to enforce that, but no other Unit does.”
I asked an inmate recently transferred from Rosa the same question: A. “When I got to Carlos I couldn’t believe the guards let us squirm until count completely clears before I could use the bathroom. The girls on Rosa and Pie have to be healthy and able to work full-time. No watch/swallow pills, no major physical impairments. Here, on C Bay, all I see are cancer patients, the elderly, and wheelchair-bound. How do they make it an hour without peeing?? And they get major tickets for it!!!”
Yes. How indeed.