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Fentanyl Found on Perryville Tram!!!
Apparently, the long-held belief that everything that happens in prison should be covered up, is alive and well today 8-15-23. Gov Hobbs's transparency has not broken through the DOC's cartel ways. Blockade, hide, stonewall, deceive, and LIE LIE LIE. This morning...
BREAKING: State ADA Attorney Goes to Court to Help Carlos Women!
Attorney Sklar Colavito bar#033541, filed in court on Oct.12th a lawsuit against DOC for not allowing bathroom breaks and medical supplies to inmates. As we reported in another story, Robin Fahr is the brave inmate going up against the DOC and Provider Johnson for...
Warden Dorsey Removes Cooler Meant for Patients to Staff to Make Them More Comfortable
On the same day in early June as Director Ryan came to visit Santa Cruz, Warden Dorsey demanded the Porta-cooler be unplugged and given to staff. That left patients at the Cruz clinic to endure 100-degree heat without any cooling. This Porta-cooler was put there as...
Aging Prison Population Finds Parole Elusive
by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News January, 2019, According to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Justice, about 11% of the state and federal prison population in 2016 was over age 55. Of those prisoners, numbering roughly 160,000,...
Elder Abuse at Perryville
This is not an isolated case of elder abuse at the women's prison. Sgt. G admitted to an inmate that cases of inmate elder abuse are too common here. The latest example was a 64 year old lady who uses a cane. Her 20 year old room mate didn't want to room "with an old...
Prison Food and Commissary Services: A Recipe for Disaster
Originally published on AUG. 4, 2018 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News August, 2018, page 1 by David M. Reutter Excerpt from full article ... In early July 2017, a group of women incarcerated at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville collectively...
Women In Arizona Prison Say Toilet Paper Is Being Withheld
Women confined in the Perryville prison say the Arizona Department of Corrections is not giving them enough toilet paper to live clean, hygienic lives. Read more here: http://kjzz.org/content/711066/women-arizona-prison-say-toilet-paper-being-withheld
On the Inside: The Chaos of Arizona Prison Health Care
The Arizona Department of Corrections contracts with privately owned correctional health care company Corizon Health to oversee all medical, mental and dental care at 10 state prisons. However, that care has come under scrutiny in federal court. Read more: ...
I Did It Norway – Some American prisons are singing a European tune
Originally published in The Marshall Project: Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice on Oct. 31, 2017 "In August, when the solar eclipse passed over South Boise Women's Correctional Center in Idaho, the officers held lunch early, handed out protective sunglasses,...