Month: April 2022

One lady in Marion County Jail was given anti-psychotic medication for her seizures. She gained a lot of weight and is depressed because of it, so she stays in her cell and sleeps all day. At CCCF, they told her medications were mandatory and they make her feel sick to her stomach every day.

For her first offense, she got 10 years probation when the police hog tied her and put a spit mask on her when she was being cooperative. They threw her in the back of the truck and took her to the hospital after throwing her on the ground. There were 7 large male officers there and she is only about 5’4″ and weighed about 120 lbs.

The second time this young lady was arrested, they grabbed her arm that had a birth control implant. She asked them not to be so aggressive, then they pushed her over and then punched her and stepped on her foot really hard. He also pushed his finger into her temple really hard and almost made her pass out. She was going through an overdose at the time and they never took her to the hospital. There were 5 officers there.

At CCCF, they literally give ladies a “shakedown report” when searching their cells. They take anything they want out of the cell and call it contraband, including things ladies have bought from the prison store. According to the Prison Rape Elimination Act, they have to be respectful when conducting searches. We don’t think stealing from a cell during a search is respectful behavior for staff here.

One lady at CCCF has been in segregation for close to a month for refusing to move to the top bunk, which has no protective railings. Also the ladder to get there is not built according to OSHA standards. It’s hard to use the phone to call our families in segregation and they take all of our possessions away.

Another lady fell off the top bunk a couple of days ago and is now in the hospital. She was supposed to be getting out in 12 days. We hope she is able to go home and get away from this dangerous, abusive place.

Another Lady was arrested with an injured arm and she told the officer, but she handcuffed her and pushed her down on the car purposely being aggressive when she was cooperating.

We work all the time in the kitchen at CCCF with black mold which is bad for our respiratory health. One lady with COPD was being forced to work there.

Lindsey Perry (SID # 12785642 at CCCF) has two broken pins and a non-union fractured femur. They refused to give her pain medication because she has dilated cardiomyopathy. She also has celiac disease and they found multiple nodules in her lungs. They told her it was chronic granulomatous disease, an autoimmune disease. They didn’t give her any info on this whatsoever and we don’t have any access to the internet here. OHSU says she qualifies for surgery when her social status gets better. This is cruel and unusual punishment. The prison is willing to pay for transgender surgery, so why not this?

Susan Monica – They put her case on Snapped (TV show) with a bunch of false information.

One lady at CCCF got 15 months for a parole violation. That seems like excessive sentencing.

Another lady at CCCF is being forced to do chemo therapy against her will. It is a shame that CBD products can’t be used in here as they are all natural with no side effects. (it’s THC that has psychoactive effects, not CBD) Rick Simpson’s oil helps with the side-effects of chemotherapy, which is basically poison that makes people very sick and in some instances even lose their hair. Not with CBD or Rick Simpson’s oil. We would eventually like to even get a CBD plant program here at CCCF so people can learn to grow it and how it can be used as medicine for migraines, fibromyalgia, epilepsy, anxiety, and sleep problems. With cannabis being legal in Oregon now, it would be a great addition to the prison as it would save them a lot of money.

The temptation is great at CCCF to claim behavioral health issues as they get more privileges like more time out of their cells, being able to watch music videos, and getting a radio. We are not sure but we suspect the young lady with the incident yesterday may have done this. The prison then went behind her back and got a court order to give her injections of medication. They asked her to sign it, but she refused. It is very concerning that they can do this in here. We consider it medical rape. The staff also violated the HIPAA law by telling the young lady’s medical info to other prisoners.

One lady at CCCF has a hernia in her throat, so sometimes she has to go to the bathroom when she’s eating because she has trouble swallowing and even throws up sometimes. She asked an officer if she could go to her room during a meal to use the bathroom and the officer said no. We saw them taking her down the hall in handcuffs. This violates her HIPAA rights as she should not have to disclose her medical records in order to use the bathroom.

One lady at CCCF says she wants to put in a grievance about what happened today but she’s afraid of the head nurse here and that they will force a needle on her if she does.

The officer in charge of housing ladies here at CCCF was escorted off of the facility because of a PREA report. This is the same lady that was showing favoritism to the lesbian prisoners.

One lady at CCCF can barely stay awake for a week straight in the kitchen while at work. Another lady here is forced a shot of medicine that she doesn’t want. She was crying and screaming “it’s my body” in her cell as they were getting ready to do it. We say this is rape. We saw 6 officers in riot gear taking her away. She’s just a small young woman in her early 20s that can’t be more than 5′ 4″ and 115 lbs. We ask that you call in and make a PREA report for her. According to the Prison Rape Elimination Act, staff at this facility have been trained to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse. We say staff here should be held accountable for this. PREA also says rape is never part of the penalty and staff at this facility must not punish us for reporting abuse.

We’ve been locked down for over 24 hours at CCCF because department of corrections had an Easter egg hunt for their families. We haven’t been able to call our families at all or even friends for the holiday.

A pregnant lady at CCCF had a grand mal seizure because of the medications they put her on. They didn’t even take her to the hospital.

According to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), this facility must respond supportively to someone that needs help. The young lady that that was sexually assaulted here did not get help from Oregon Department of Corrections. She had to find her own lawyer to start an investigation. Staff here at CCCF should keep her safe and make sure she gets help, but that never happened. Staff here is supposed to also protect her from retaliation but they didn’t. Instead, they repeatedly punished her and sent her to the isolation unit. This is not OK. Rape should never be a part of the penalty and we feel the staff here should be held accountable. We have the right to be safe here and we have the right to be treated with respect and dignity.

Kitchen coordinators at CCCF announced to us last night that they don’t want to hear about our injuries and health problems. “Do that in your off time. It’s not my problem.”

One lady at CCCF was 16 years old when she was brought here. A lot of ladies suffer from depression and they say there’s not a lot of support or even counseling here. In fact, they tell us we’re not allowed to talk about our cases or problems here. One thing they do offer and even seem to push on us is medication. One lady says she was given Lithium at Washington County Jail and at CCCF she’s visibly under the influence of a very strong medication. She says she’s afraid of getting in trouble if she doesn’t take it. Another lady that works in the kitchen at CCCF is on Thorazine. Both of these ladies move very slowly and when they under-staff us, it’s really hard for us to keep up. We get punished when they are under-staffed with officers by not letting us go outside.

The young lady that was sexually assaulted at Washington County Jail has found a lawyer to conduct an investigation, but the person that did it to her is still here at this facility and free to sexually assault another lady. Under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, staff is supposed to be keeping her safe and separating her from the person that sexually assaulted her. Another lady was sexually assaulted by another prisoner. They were separated by being moved to different units but we see them both in the meal line getting food at around the same time.

An officer said she watched a lady at CCCF sit for 10 minutes without her mask on and wrote a disciplinary report without even talking to her first. The lady said she did have her mask on and the officer should check the cameras. The officer replied that she would give the lady another one for calling her a liar. At this point, the officer is not concerned about safety, only control.

We had another lady placed in the segregation unit for a week, then they decided to drop her charges. She has had all of her things taken away from her and she doesn’t even have a cup to drink out of. This is harassment and we are doing our best to help her.

In the kitchen today at CCCF, a lady banged her finger so bad she wasn’t sure if she broke it. It swelled up to twice its size. The kitchen coordinator she told said she wasn’t allowed to go to medical to have it examined.

In an area of CCCF where the officers came in and out, there is a giant mural of soldiers with machine guns. This is not an image we want to portray in a place we live. It sends a subliminal message that prisoners are enemies. Under the Prison Rape Elimination act, we deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. You be the judge of that.

A major university did a psychological study on the incarceration situation by taking 20 people to participate. 10 were designated as prisoners and 10 were designated as officers. They had to stop the experiment because some of the people designated as officers started getting abusive with the prisoners. We think there needs to be a psychological evaluation done on officers here at CCCF and other prisons in America. Evaluations also need to be done on the staff at jails as well.

Under the PREA, staff at this facility must be respectful when conducting searches. One officer was seen going into a lady’s cell when she was at work and not told they were conducting a search. Also under the PREA, staff at this facility are required to act professionally. They should not be picking favorites, which we have seen and documented quite a bit here. Under the act, we have the right to medical and mental health care after we have been sexually abused. Both of the ladies we have mentioned here were not offered that at either facility. Facilities must have a plan to keep us safe from sexual about and sexual harassment and respond supportively if someone needs help. This didn’t happen with either facility and they should be help accountable

One lady at CCCF has been here since February and has a mass in her chest that’s never been tested. She says it bothers her sometimes and she has trouble swallowing. They gave her an inhaler in case she has trouble breathing.

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about jail and prison and we really hope this sheds some light on the situation. The way people get criminalized for past convictions and get sentenced to more time is almost like double jeopardy. We really want to believe in America but the way they treat people who don’t have a lot of money, drug addicts, and people with mental illness here is wrong. In an ideal society, we try to help those that have less than what we do, not punish and abuse them like they do at CCCF. Just the other day, we had a lady beaten so badly by 15 officers, they had to take her out in a body bag.

One lady says that she came to Oregon for help because they portrayed an image like they wanted to help her. She has a record and was going through a divorce where her ex husband was giving her a lot of trouble. She ended up with over a year sentenced here at CCCF without the help she was asking for.

A lady at CCCF cut her finger pretty badly in the veggie room of the kitchen, which is usually locked to keep anyone from going in or out except kitchen coordinators. They were banging on the door to get the coordinators to open it and it took quite some time for that to happen. Once the coordinator opened the door, the prisoners were reprimanded for banging on the door.

One lady at CCCF had her first offense when her boyfriend told her to drive when she was blacked out by opiates. She didn’t know the car was stolen, so when they were pulled over,she was the one given fifty months in prison, but her boyfriend only got 5 months and he had a record. She had no prior convictions. Now whenever she gets another conviction, another five months is automatically added to her sentence. This is the same lady who was given methadone and Oxycontin when she was twelve years old because she was in a car accident. At that young age to be put on opiates they almost programmed her for opiate addiction. This is also another example of how the state of Oregon discriminates against women.

Many of the ladies here have taken the blame for crimes their men have done and not just because of the system. Some women choose to do that out of love. We have never heard of a man taking charges for his woman. In fact, one woman was at the condo complex of her male friend the day she was accused of many crimes she didn’t do including murder 2. There was even a camera at the entrance and he never came forward to say she was with him that day.

Another lady was convicted of writing checks against her grandmother’s account but it was her boyfriend they had on camera cashing the checks. Women are often used as scapegoats both by the system and by men we think it’s time they should be accountable and stop putting the blame on women.

A lady in the kitchen at CCCF today was in a lot of pain because she broke her back and they wouldn’t let her leave. Later on in the day she had a slip and fall accident and was taken out in a wheelchair while crying in pain.

Covid vaccinations by Johnson & Johnson were given at Washington County jail before they were approved by the FDA. The same thing happened at CCCF and other corrections facilities. The medications that don’t sell to the public end up here and in an effort to save money, the facility either forces medications that are not correct on ladies or doesn’t provide medications that work to ladies because they are in too much demand by the public. Our health and safety should not be compromised like this.

Another lady at CCCF was supposed to get 7 points of her insulin and they gave her 30 by accident. If it was fast acting insulin, she would have been dead. This is criminal negligence and should not be happening here. This same lady has an enlarged aorta and still hasn’t been treated. This is a person’s life they are gambling with. This kind of criminal negligence belongs in a P.O.W. camp and not the United States of America.

A lady at CCCF last night was given the wrong insulin and spent the night in the hospital.

There was a girl at Oak Creek Corrections Facility that was given diabetic medicine for being overweight. She actually ended up getting diabetes from taking this medication.

There is another lady at CCCF that was in a car accident at age twelve. The doctors gave her methadone and Oxycontin and now she has trouble with opioid addiction.

One lady was giving birth to a baby and while the doctors were cleaning her up she noticed a DHS representative there looking at her. He said she wasn’t allowed to be alone with her baby. Then later on they said she was allowed and that they made a mistake.

Another lady at CCCF had a sexual assault happen in the kitchen with a coordinator. WE have a right to be safe here from sexual predators.

50 ladies in G unit were strip-searched and five were give urinalysis tests. They didn’t find anything. This is harassment on a large scale.

Ladies in the kitchen at CCCF were punished for having their own commissary items.

One lady that works in the kitchen was strip-searched while handcuffed to the wall for no reason. This is intimidation and harassment. She was also made fun of by the officers at CCCF and interrogated.

The men’s prisons has an early release option which the women’s prison does not. This once again goes to show that the state of Oregon discriminates against women. Their men’s prison also has an automotive program and a lawyer program where prisoners can study to become a lawyer and also practice law from prison. There is no reason why the ladies can’t have these privileges as well. The discrimination in Oregon needs to stop, and so does the excessive force and violence, the intimidation, and the unnecessary harassment of prisoners.

It was in national news that an officer at CCCF was having sex with a bunch of female prisoners at CCCF. It’s the prison’s job to keep prisoners safe and it seems like they are more concerned with unnecessary punishment, harassment, and intimidation. One lady was beaten up by someone she didn’t even know and they failed to keep her safe. Another lady broke her arm falling in her room.

A lady from D unit, which is where many ladies with mental illness and PTSD issues are housed in CCCF, saw two different ladies pepper sprayed. One was on April 1st and the other was on April 3rd. She could feel the pepper spray burning her eyes while she was in her cell. Another lady that works as an orderly had to clean it up. She said she’s learned not to breath while she cleans it. We don’t think pepper spray is a good way to handle mental illness or PTSD issues in the first place, but it also affects many others besides the intended victims. Also, a lot of the ladies here are on medications, and when the dosage is adjusted or a new medication is taken, ladies can have drastic mood altering effects and even get sick from this. It interferes with their ability to be accountable for their actions along with mental illness.

The officers and staff here have no such excuse for this abuse and we want them to start being accountable for all of the injustices we experience here. One lady was celled-in twelve times in two months because she can’t hear.

In the kitchen at CCCF, we are not allowed to bring anything out of the kitchen. This leaves us with a dilemma if we need to bring in antacid or aspirin or anything like that because we will have to get searched upon leaving. If anything is found, we are punished.

There is one lady at the Lynn County Jail that woke up in a pool of her own blood with nothing but a hospital gown on. They had cut her clothes off while she was unconscious and had cracked her left eye socket in a display of excessive force and violence.

One lady at CCCF says she feels discriminated against because all the lesbian couples get moved to the minimum security section of the prison. The officer in charge of housing here is a woman but looks and dresses like a man. We’re not sure if she is a lesbian, but it makes sense because she seems to exhibit favoritism when housing ladies.

Today in the kitchen, we had the head of the culinary department observe operations. It was the first time in two months that we were shown emergency exists and where fire extinguishers are. There are still ladies working in the kitchen without non-slip shoes though, and we see ladies slip even with non-slip shoes.