
Infrastructure Nightmares
Introduction to this Topic by the Editor
I need to give you a little background on Perryville so this will be more understandable. This prison was built in the early
Explaining the Shower Picture
This is an accurate sketch of a real shower in “B” yard, Santa Cruz unit. Do you see the loose wires hanging in the lower door jamb? I was told they were “live” because this shower light is still on. I won’t test this theory! I’ve tried to portray all the standing water in front of those wires. All the shower units have standing water because the drains are all plugged.
Standing water = black mold we see everywhere
When inmates complained about the condition of this shower, they just took off the door and left it open. In the shower next to this one (not pictured) is the same filth.
The regulators (hot and cold) will not engage so moving the handle from Hot to Cold does nothing. The temperature the DOC sets is what you get. In the winter the water is cold and in the summer, it’s hot. The water pressure would increase dramatically if they would soak the shower heads in Lime-aWay to remove 50 years of accumulated minerals.

Carlos Medical Disasters
1) Woman has surgery on her elbows. She goes to Carlos nurses line for wound care. The so-called “nurse” told that patient, “I don’t see anything here from the surgeon for wound care, so I’m not touching you, giving you gauze, ointment, or anything else.” That elderly lady went back to her bay and cried her eyes out. Fellow inmates to the rescue! Her friends gathered gauze, bandages, antibiotic ointment, and cleaned her bloody wounds themselves. The surgeon did prescribe antibiotics, but No-Care Naphcare is famous for not giving post surgery antibiotics, so of course she developed an infection. Two weeks later when the surgeon saw her he was “appalled” that his patient had not received basic care. As of this writing, she is still infected, and has oozing sores.
2) 65 year old slips and falls in the kitchen, and both male officers refuse to call an ICS even though she can’t move and is holding her knee in pain. Three inmates pick her up and carry her back to Bravo bay. Her knee is now the size of a basketball. Reluctantly, the bay officer takes the lady to medical. Carlos medical doesn’t give her a wheelchair, ice, food lay-in tray, or pain pills. They tell her she’ll go in for X-rays in “a few days”. Five days later the swelling has not gone down, she can’t put weight on that leg, so they magnanimously give her crutches to hobble on. EIGHT DAYS from her fall the 65 year old goes to X-Ray and a horrified technician calls Carlos with the result….the elderly lady BROKE HER KNEECAP IN HALF! This news finally gets her to a hospital for much delayed surgery.
What fiends work there????

Updates on Food Theft
The criminals responsible for Perryville women not getting Aramark food should realize the kitchen workers are inmates, and they are taking notes, names, and LICENSE PLATES of trucks nefarious movements.
We just got in another report: “I unload pallets of real russet potatoes into Complex Kitchen, then overnight it disappears. In two months the women have only gotten real potatoes twice on their plates….where is the rest going? We have an old truck we use as ” storage”, it has no license plates. Sometimes we come into work and that truck is missing along with all that was inside.”
Update on TURKEY CAPER: We previously reported 16 turkeys put in the oven at Complex the day before Thanksgiving. Two sources say the exact total was 28 turkeys. Those went to feed the MEN ONLY on Aspen, Alhambra, and Phoenix-West prisons. An inmate that made the gravy said she put giblets in the men’s but the women got plain gravy.

Thanksgiving turkey caper, or why the women got the BIRD!
We’ve been writing for years about Arizona’s widespread discrimination against women in every aspect of their lives. This is just another example of the DOC’s contempt of ladies.
On Thanksgiving day the men all got fresh turkey off the bone….as in a real, intact, full bird, roasted in an oven turkey. The women in Perryville got pressed, processed, salt infused, water added, pre-sliced white meat. We assume it was turkey meat.
Workers at Complex Kitchen testified they put 16 whole turkey birds in the oven to roast. When they returned the next day expecting to cut them up, they were gone.
Gone? Further investigation on their part revealed the cooked birds were transported to the men’s prison to be cut up for the holiday meal. We are so angry about this story we’re going to dig deeper, get names, and expose this blatant slap in the face to the women of Perryville.
To be continued.
Pregnant Women Starved and Neglected in Perryville!
(Editorial note: To the Pro-Life Republicans in this (still) red state. If you really value the unborn and support young mothers, then why do you let incarcerated women be hungry, and neglect their medical needs? These are three women telling the same story.) "I'm...
Carlos Medical Gives NO Pain Meds to Cancer Patient!
(She wrote us this letter and begged to have her real name in the story. Ed.) "My name is Robin Leigh Kulp. I am housed at Perryville prison, San Carlos unit. On 3-25-24 I was having trouble breathing, and having serious chest pain. My legs were throbbing, aching, and...
No-Care Naphcare the Worst EVER!
(We thought after the ACLU descended on Perryville March 14th, that Naphcare would have the fear of the Lord instilled in them. Oh no, they actually got worse toward the inmates. These are snippets of stories we're working on.) M.L. went in for her chronic care...
Why Women DON’T Ask For Mental Health Care
(A rebuttal to Director Thornell's out-of-touch letter to the inmate population. A first-hand recent account.) "My dad had just died and I felt like joining him. I went to medical and informed the guard that I felt like hurting myself. At first, he tried to talk me...
Contrast CA to AZ mental health watch
(We had the opportunity to interview a lady that recently transferred from California's CIW prison to Perryville.) "I was going through severe mental health issues at California Institution for Women, which is a prison in southern California. I was never handcuffed...
Open Letter to Ryan Thornell: Director Letter on Mental Health Awareness
Your March 5th mental health letter went over like a lead balloon with the ladies at Perryville. You are so out of touch. Ryan, you live in your ivory tower insulated by sycophants who treat you like a mushroom. Didn't that encounter with Erica Stapleton teach you...
Surgery Patients and The Sh*t Show They Must Endure Afterwards
In EVERY interview I've conducted on women who have surgery or are admitted to IPC, say the prison HAS LOST THEIR PROPERTY! This recent story is just an example of how this works. The other constant in these stories is the rude transport guards, and their vans that...
Another Death, This Time On Lumley
Reliable staff sources confirm a lady died on March 1st at Lumley unit. Reportedly, the day before she went to the medical unit complaining of severe stomach pain. Sources allege she was told to "drink water" and no other diagnostic care was given. The next morning an...
Officers Watt and Phillips Make Visitation a Great Experience
After last year's less-than-stellar interaction with visitation officer M, I prepared to dehydrate myself prior to the first food visit of 2024. Why? Officer M made us all line up in mass to use the restroom during the visit and frisked us in the line for good...
Woman with 2 uterine masses, cirrhosis, and portal hypertension fights with Naphcare for a doctor
Ms. R. has been churning out urgent grievances to get healthcare for her diagnosis. Naphcare denies her at every turn. She is in constant, severe pain from the uterine masses discovered by CT Scan at Abrazo West hospital. Naphcare denied her request for a hysterectomy...
Breaking News! Has the DOC sabotaged the Injunction App?
For our readers who don't know why this is so critical, let us explain it to you. On April 7, 2023, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona entered a Permanent Injunction to address the unconstitutional provision of health care and the...
Excessive “shakes” on DW Jones watch
Deputy Warden Jones has been on the job for 6 months now, and we're about to give him a failing grade. He has not instituted any policy or program that has been for the benefit of his residents. This is just one example of his "always the stick never the carrot"...
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