In Yam Hill County Jail, a guy was beat up and had internal bleeding. He was also peeing blood. He pushed the emergency button for help but nobody came. His family sued the jail for 5 million dollars.
One lady at CCCF, the one that was give Loss of Privileges (LOP)before her hearing, was questioning the officers when she got her hearing results back as the charges had been dropped. She was moved to the isolation unit (punishment) with no explanation. While there, she met another lady that said her mother had worked for the state before and they were trained not to admit when they made mistakes, so the officer the lady had questioned had said in his report that the lady did not have the right paperwork, but she knew that was wrong and the officer just didn’t want to to admit he was wrong. In the mean time, while waiting to be moved to the isolation unit, ladies are placed in cages not even big enough to stretch out out in. Ladies are left there for hours at a time and are ignored if they ask to use the restroom. Two ladies urinated on themselves because they couldn’t hold it any longer. Three ladies that we know of are in the isolation unit solely on suspicion. The unit is completely full and they treat us like animals here. We are not allowed to call friends or family.
One lady at CCCF was taken to isolation because her roommate used one of her envelopes to send a letter to someone and ask about getting drugs into the prison. The lady was blamed for it and has been in isolation for 14 days now. She was given her intake interview chained to a wall. She would like to further her education here and get her law degree, as she already has her paralegal degree and has job experience. Another lady here has already turned in a proposal for ladies to be able to study and become lawyers here at CCCF and also to be able to practice as a lawyer. The men’s prison has this available and we are wondering why the proposal hasn’t even been answered after several months. We think it’s discrimination against women.
There is another lady here in segregation at CCCF that was accused by her work colleagues of threatening to “shank” them when she had done no such thing and never even had a “shank”. The officers brought her here and and charged her with assault just on hearsay. It’s a shame that ladies are so often punished for crimes they didn’t commit and treated like animals. This particular lady was eventually let out of segregation but there are still others that haven’t even been told why they’re here.
One lady in Washington County Jail was given two years for a burglary. She crashed her car into her ex boyfriend’s house. His father punched her and she was still given a burglary charge. In CCCF, she is being held in segregation for 6 months.
One lady in segregation at CCCF is trying to get envelopes to send letters to her mother and significant other. They don’t even know she’s in prison and she has an infant child her mother is taking care of. Another lady they’ve been keeping her address book from her and she has elderly parents that have terminal illness. We feel like we shouldn’t have contact cut off from family that we are responsible for.