We have another lady who is here at CCCF who is an immigrant that used a plastic cup to make a cup of coffee and was sentenced to ten years in prison. This, as well as the other incident I mentioned in an earlier message about a lady being threatened by the system for not having her green card and DHS allowing her to commit suicide while in State custody, leads me to believe that the State of Oregon not only discriminates against women but they also discriminate against immigrants.
In Washington County Jail there was a lady who was placed in a segregation unit as punishment because she did not speak English. She was also placed in a shower stall nude for over two hours more than once.
There is another sexual assault victim who came forward at Washington County Jail and also one of the other victims is extremely depressed and hasn’t received medical attention here at CCCF. She has not received any counseling or medication and at Washington County Jail I watched her having an extreme panic attack where she hit her head against the floor and she was not she was not treated there for the concussion. She awoke in isolation (punishment) with a lot of blood and distorted vision.
Often during trials, a person’s prior convictions are used as a substitute for evidence. But in Washington County several ladies with clean records and have never been in trouble with the Law ended up being convicted up with only circumstantial evidence on murder charges and receive life sentences. One lady, before conviction, was brought into a full courtroom wearing shackles in a wheelchair because she had not eaten in two months due to all the threats and punishments she receive from deputies at the Jail and her public defenders.. They originally tried to make her walk in shackles, but she could not walk fast enough to please them. She was given a sentencing hearing with a judge from another County (they never told from which County) and he tried to coerce her to make a deal and to plead guilty to a crime she did not commit. During her trial in Washington County the judge allowed the State to seize a vehicle they had seized without a warrant, even though her family is in desperate need of a vehicle, since her parents are terminally ill.
Another lady here had evidence stolen from her case by the DA. This lady also had been sexually abused and assaulted at Washington County Jail but she was not treated for painful injuries while she awaited trial there for two years. Both of these ladies had been placed in isolation units before trials and they had no criminal history. In more than three instances ladies we not given credit for time served at Washington County Jail when later sentenced to CCCF.