At CCCF there are ladies with severe mental illness slipping through the cracks because they choose to spend most of their time in their rooms. If the line is too long for medication or it’s too loud, they can choose to go days without taking anti-psychotic medicine. If another lady happens to be put in a cell with a lady like this, it is even more punishing to her than her actual sentence.
They use pepper spray as punishment here. When they spray ladies, the whole unit can smell it and then they lock us in our cells with pepper spray in the air. Ladies put towels under the door jam, but the pepper spray still comes in.
They practice bad conditioning here. When a lady does something like instigating violence from another lady, she is rewarded. When ladies do something like sharing coffee or juice, they are punished. On lady was celled-in for three days for sharing juice.
We have ladies here who will not come out of their cells for up to a month because they do not want to be instigated before they are released. There are also ladies that have been conditioned by officers to try to instigate another lady to violence because they have been rewarded in the past for that behavior.
We see this in the courts as well. People who testify against others, whether they tell the truth or not, are granted immunity. We have seen a court documentary where a person that actually pulled the trigger in a murder testified that it was someone else who was innocent actually pulled the trigger. The Justice System is rewarding this bad behavior and punishing an innocent person. Who is to say how many innocent people are getting blamed for crimes they did not commit.