Month: January 2023

A lady at CCCF was in the methadone program before coming here. Here she was denied any medication because she was given 6 years in prison and the prison did not want to pay for her medication. It is dangerous for someone to detox from methadone cold turkey and the prison forced her to that. There is a new law passed within the last year saying that we are supposed to get the same medical and dental care in here as we got outside the prison. According to this, our prison is breaking the law.

Another lady here has celiac disease, and because the prison is not preparing her meals properly, she is getting red blotches on her skin and that is causing internal inflammation. A kitchen coordinator here chose to punish her for trying to speak up about the preparation of her meals.

Many ladies here are being isolated from families and friends because of a policy where people have to register to be on a call list in order to be allowed to call them. The website for registering them was down for a long time and many of us who are not tech savvy did not know how to register. We want the prison to stop isolating us from our friends and family.

Another lady here has not been paid for work she did here in November. She has been trying to talk to the Inmate Worker Program (IWP) about it, but she says they were really rude to her. We hope she gets paid soon.

The lady here who runs the Cosmetology Program allows Department of Corrections staff to come in for services at half price because they pay in cash. She pockets the money. In one day you can see up to 5 persons at a time doing this.

The sewers are leaking in the bathroom inside the kitchens at CCCF. They make the ladies eat in the break room that is right next to it..

In regards to our recent events with police brutality . . . we have a lot of it going on inside our prisons as well. We have ladies here who have permanent injuries from police brutality.

Several ladies here have been kidnapped. Brought here from extraditable States. One lady was brought here and convicted simply on suspicion. We need this to stop and these ladies need to be set free. We are not commodities to be brought here for money.

A lady at CCCF fell down the stairs. She said it hurt really badly and she cannot put any weight on it. She thinks its broken. They won’t give her a wheelchair or even crutches to get around.

Another lady got 57 disciplinary reports and still gets her good time. Other ladies get one disciplinary report and loose their good time. Favoritism causes a lot of negative emotions in here.

One lady here was offered a deal of manslaughter with 10 years in prison, but she did not take it because why would she take a deal for something she did not do. She had no criminal record and had never even been to jail before. In retaliation for taking the case to trial the court gave her 25 years to life. A man in the same county with an extensive criminal record was only given 10 years for the same crime.

Another lady here was trying to get her drug treatment, but was denied. Instead the court gave her prison time for a drug case. Why do courts want to punish someone with a disease instead of giving them treatment? Something is seriously wrong with the system.

We would like to compare the justice system of today to the opioid crisis of our past, of which there are still large class action lawsuits underway. Doctors were handing out prescriptions like candy to get commissions from big pharma companies without warning patients of the risks of dependency – a mentality we feel is rampant in the current justice system where officials and authorities care more about their paycheck than the lives they are affecting when they over-sentence, wrongfully convict, and falsely arrest. Yet the general public is still in the dark about what is going on, and officers, lawyers, and even judges are given the benefit of the doubt without question. We urge all of you to take a second to look at what is really going on here. Every single civil right we have in here at CCCF has been violated and we want it to stop.