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, 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 18, 2020 | front page, Health, Inmate Stories
I’m starting the HALL OF SHAME for guards who refuse to wear masks here. L. Garcia, lets start with you. This guard went his entire shift with no mask! There will be more. Today started with my morning jog as usual. I’m as deaf as a post, but I could hear...
by Assist. Editor | Nov 11, 2020 | front page, Health, Inmate Stories
Dateline Cruz: I was diagnosed with back injury and anklosing spondilitis. I resisted the spinal shots they wanted to give me, but I was in 24 hour unrelenting pain. The first shot went ok but did not give me pain relief. The 2nd almost killed me. When the doctor put...
