One lady at CCCF remembers doing drugs with a correction officer on the outside before she came here. The officer was going to try to get her a job too. And then she was arrested. Correction officers only need good education to get jobs here. Training to become a corrections officer takes approximately 16 weeks. We think there should be more training to deal with things in prisons like mental illness, violence de-escalation and drug addiction. Nobody likes being told what to do by ignorant, uneducated individuals.
From the time we were children we are taught to share with our friends. At CCCF we are punished and sent to segregation for this. Is this punishment or torture.? In segregation the officers took one lady in for questioning while she was in segregation and left her chained to a wall for 2 hours because she would not talk to them. When she was put back into segregation none of the other ladies would talk to her because they said she was talking to the cops for two hours. They also move people from cell to cell, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day and laugh at them as they try to gather their belongings. At this point though, most of their belongings have previously already been taken away from them. Some of their belongings will never be returned to them, including things like TVs, headphones, makeup and radios.
They move people around a lot when they are not in segregation too. This takes a lot of effort, sometimes hours, for people to get their things packed for moves.. If they know that 2 people are friends, they will separate them into different units.
In segregation the officers will refuse people showers and then openly talking about hoping other prisoners will beat them up for smelling bad. When those ladies do beat them up for the amusement of the officers they will give them extra food at mealtimes. Others they don’t like will be forgotten about for meals, things to clean their cells with, and library books. We think that favoritism from ignorant uneducated correction officers is not something we should have to deal with. Is this place run by the Department of Corrections or is this just a place of abuse.