There is one woman here at CCCF that keeps getting woken up by officers at night between 2 and 4 am. Her feet get itchy from working in the kitchen and they look into her window and laugh at her. March 18th at 2:15am, she saw a short Mexican male officer looking in her window and snickering about her scratching her feet. This is an infringement of her privacy and should not be happening.
There is another lady at CCCF that was blamed for crimes her ex-boyfriend did to one of her family members. Her family has proof that the D.A. in her case took a bribe from her ex-boyfriend so he was allowed to walk free and is now at large to do more crimes against the elderly.
Another lady at CCCF hurt her back working as an orderly at Lynn County Jail and she has not been treated for those injuries. She has three bulging disks and has been forced to work in the kitchen.
Another lady at CCCF had a cell search and the officer destroyed her altar that she had made. The officer also ripped up some poetry that she had written. When she asked the officer why, the officer replied “nothing is sacred here and anything else belongs to me”. This is a direct violation of her religious freedoms and should not be happening.
We continue to see ladies here at CCCF with not only lots of scars on their arms and legs from cutting, but also fresh cuts. One scar looked so deep and long it went nearly around her forearm and looked like there must have been more than 15 stitches. There is obviously something very wrong here and it’s hard to watch so many people suffering so much. The behavioral health counselors have even taken to doing video calls with prisoners instead of meeting with them in person. One of the ladies who attempted suicide last week was out for quite awhile and they had to use a defibrillator to revive her. We are glad she survived but fear she may be suffering from neurological damage, as when she was transported out of the unit, she was having some upper body twitching. If these are the effects of long term incarceration, then we think America needs to take a serious look at the whole system before we lose more lives. We are grateful Oregon has done away with the death penalty, but to watch our fellow prisoners suffer so much in a way can be considered worse than the death penalty itself.