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.