Stories Direct from The Inmates
Life in Perryville
Cancer Patient Gets Ticket for Sleeping
This one even amazes us. Helena received a MAJOR ticket from the night guard, for sleeping through his kicking her bed frame at 4:00am!
The DHO (0fficer in charge of major tickets), told Helena at her hearing, “That will teach you for disrespecting an officer when your asleep.”. Yep, no typo because she told me twice, and took notes after her meeting with the DHO.
The DOC’s explanation was Helena had the cover over her head (because of the light over her bed), and when the guard asked to see her face, Helena didn’t wake up right away. Helena has had stomach cancer and sleeps a lot. Is this a crime? (I personally can sleep through a 7.2 earthquake). As she finally woke up from the guard banging on her bed, he yelled at her “YOU’RE ADVISED”
And with that, her dream of working for Televerde evaporated at 4 am in the morning.
“My conversations with idiots at 6am”
This came in this morning and we are posting it exactly as we received it.
“I’m out jogging when I see a friend my age (70s) who asks about the town hall meeting. So I stop to give her a recap, and I’m on the part about the DW not mandating masks……when who comes out the door but one of the Lt’s in the meeting. We square off about mask-wearing. He feels the same way his boss does about masks…” it’s useless, and COVID is overblown.”. We proceed into a very spirited argument that we are hearing all over the country. My favorite quote from him is, “Yeah, I could get COVID just like I might get hit by lightning or one of these girls might sucker punch me.”. ?? I’ll let that speak for itself. My parting words to him were, “This prison is run by people like you, you’re in the right place.”. Then I jog by the biggest offender of smoking out of area….the Sgt. And I inform him he’s smoking in the wrong place. He says something back at me but I’m glad I kept on jogging.”
Now, in case you’re new to all of this nonsense – here are a few quotes directly from the AZDOC. It’s obvious their words do not reflect their actions.
“Our priority remains ensuring the health and safety of inmates as well as all ADCRR employees and on-site third party partners.” July 13, 2020 COVID-19 Management Update https://corrections.az.gov/covid-19-management-updates
“Currently, all ADCRR officers and staff are required to wear face covering.” COVID-19 Management Strategy Update July 2, 2020 https://corrections.az.gov/covid-19-management-updates As you can see from the message we received this morning this is not being enforced.
As for the smoking incident – in spite of federal law, Arizona State laws, and the AZDOC’s own Department Orders, smoking regulations are not enforced. This is true for both staff and inmates. This editor has personally witnessed white-shirt staff standing directly in front of No Smoking signs, lighting up in full view of Correction Officers with no repercussions what so ever. https://corrections.az.gov/sites/default/files/policies/100/0109_112919.pdf
How does any institution expect compliance from its population when it refuses to address blatant disregard of the law and the institution’s own regulations by its own employees?
Open Letter to My Deputy Warden
I’d like to address the frivolous and arbitrary tickets given on San Carlos unit. I find it curious that I could go years with a completely clean disciplinary record, and get two tickets in one week on Carlos. Neither ticket was based on written policy.
Since when does one get a ticket for being late for count at 10:55 am? The policy says 11 am. The 2nd ticket by Sgt. Spears was the result of fast walking to the library to look at the newly posted sign. I got that ticket for “exercising out of place”. Do you know what it’s like to be 65+ in prison? It’s a constant nightmare.
Please have your officers spend more time keeping us alive than giving us unnecessary stress with frivolous tickets.
Posted on our Facebook Page earlier
SGT. SPEARS gives a 70-year-old ticket for “jogging” to the library.
Boy howdy. Instead of making sure women over 65 stay alive through the COVID crisis, they issue tickets for looking at the library sign. Apparently one cannot exercise in that area. A fast walk by the elderly is exercise? Of course, this COULD be retribution. Because this is the same 70-year old that wrote up Sgt. Spears on social media, for writing a ticket to her, when she asked too many questions about COVID in April.
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