by Editor | Sep 18, 2019 | Infrastructure, Inmate Stories, Smoking
Dateline Lumley Unit: Numerous women wrote in with very similar stories about Lumley’s lawless behavior. Residents complain about out-of-control smoking; in line to the store, to the chow hall, in the chow hall, on the runs, in the rooms – everywhere! They...
by Editor | Jul 12, 2019 | Smoking
A woman about 70-years old wrote to this website to describe her struggle against second-hand smoke at Perryville. “In 2017 I submitted a grievance against staff smoking out-of-area and in the non-smoking sections of Santa Maria. I had a list of 15 names of...
by Editor | Jul 9, 2019 | Smoking
“I was located at this facility intermittently for several months, but I want to talk about my two weeks of hell, where I literally couldn’t breathe. The girls at MDU (Maria Detention Unit) were getting cigarettes smuggled in. As a result, the air was...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2019 | Smoking
A guard stationed at complex escorted a patient to Santa Cruz Medical. He stepped one foot out of Medical and promptly lit up his cigarette in front of other patients waiting outside. Several of us are asthmatics and told the guard to go someplace else, as this was a...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2019 | Smoking
Actual grievance by Perryville inmate. Names deleted to protect the guilty. Attached are the actual reports files, with all names redacted. Click on image to see all 7 pages.
by Editor | Feb 13, 2019 | Inmate Stories, Smoking
Here are 2 inmates with COPD from inhaling second-hand smoke. Both began to get symptoms some years into their incarceration at Perryville. A.G.V: “I am a life long non-smoker. After 10 years incarcerated in Oklahoma, I was transported to Perryville prison....