Stories Direct from The Inmates
Life in Perryville
62-year-old Woman in Civil Rights Lawsuit with San Carlos Provider
Ms. Fahr, incarcerated for 10 years at Perryville prison, filed this lawsuit 16 months ago with the U.S. District Court cv-21-01644-phx-dgc-dmf.
These are her diagnoses: Cohn’s disease, cervical spinal, lumbar stenosis, spondylosis, and Sella/Parcel Empty Sella. The compression in the vertebra causes severe swelling of the shoulder, arm, hip, thigh, knee, ankle, foot, and toes. Because of chronic infections, she is now antibiotic-resistant and suffers greatly.
The Provider has been working Perryville for about 13 years. Ms. Fahr feels he is responsible for her horrific medical condition, because of deliberate indifference and unwillingness to send her to specialists and denying pain meds.
Stay with this blog for info about a Go Fund Me page to help Ms. Fahr hire an attorney and pay for court costs.
Quarantine Nightmares
(This is a composite of 3 interviews with women that spent quarantine time on Lumley. It’s amazing how similar the stories are-Ed.) “
The cell they threw me in was filthy and looked like it had never been cleaned. A dirty room is where the DOC puts its sickest people from Covid. I arrived with only the clothes on my back.
In the 15 days I was in quarantine, I never received my property. The only bedding was one blanket, no sheets or pillow. I begged for toilet paper and got one roll 48 hours after I arrived. An officer told me State Issue was short on clothes, so I only got one T-shirt, one pair of shorts, and one towel….no underwear!
Requests for a mental health professional, pain meds, or a supervisor, were all denied. I was locked down 24/7 except for an occasional 15-minute shower.
The worst thing was not being able to tell my family where I was, as I had no email or phone access.”
(We have heard variations on this theme for 2 years, although it actually seems to be getting worse. The women will suffer through Covid in their own cells rather than face the horrors of quarantine. Unfortunately, this means the virus will spread faster through Perryville. But can we really blame them? Who wants to be sick AND be in a living hell at the same time?-Ed.)
Survivors Guilt
It’s 115 degrees outside, add 7 degrees more for urban heat syndrome, caused by nothing but cement and asphalt in PeeVille. This is a killer heat wave for all the women incarcerated in medium and closed custody.
I survived 11 summers on Lumley, Cruz and Maria with NO air conditioning. I know how to wrap myself in a soaked sheet and pant all day and night. One summer in 2013 I passed out and was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
So, here I am on San Carlos as cool as a cucumber while my medium friends are being tortured. It weighs on me. I hope the 3 ladies on tour from the legislature, ask to stand for a moment in a concrete cell and imagine being there for life. There are “lifers” who will never get out of prison, and that is their fate.
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