There is an old lady here at CCCF that got her cell searched and they took the sugar packets from her that she had saved up from meals. They were the only thing she had in her room besides a bible and she was given a disciplinary report for these. We hears an officers raising his voice to her last night around midnight. Another lady told him to leave her alone, she’s just an old lady. He responded that he didn’t care about her.
They are extremely wasteful at this prison and every days we see them throw away tons of food in the kitchen, They dump gallons of milk down the drain, but a lady that works in the infirmary says the milk is always curdled there.
Another young lady was locked down for 24 hours for having night terrors, which are kind of like having bad dreams but worse. Being punished really doesn’t seem like a good way to treat a person with night terrors. It’s not like they choose to have them. Punishment seems to be the answer to almost everything to these officers.
One lady just asked if anything happened to her would it even matter to anyone? This lady also has visible scars on her arms from cutting. We do our best here to make sure everyone feels important within a system that seems to pride itself in tearing people down. Contrary to popular belief, we are not in a P.O.W. camp. We are in the United States of America and we still have rights.
Once lady was telling another that she had served her country in the military and risked her life to get a college educations just so she could be bossed around by kitchen coordinators with G.E.D. education levels and that seemed to enjoy misuse of power. In fact, one of the kitchen rules is no yelling, as they need to be able to tell if there is a fight going on. Well, in the past month, there has never been a fight but there has been at least five slip & fall accidents and if someone is hurt, they would need to yell for help.
Another rule is to not touch the giant dishwasher in the dish room, as it’s a $30,000 piece of equipment. Well, one day a coordinator came into the dish room and removed a piece from the giant dish machine, then walked away and forgot about it. Hours later, it was a prisoner that put the machine back together and the coordinator never showed up.
We had a lady slip and fall on March 18th, 21st, and 22nd. They never documented them in her medical record. The other lady that slipped and fell and hurt her mouth and lip was told they don’t document injuries in the kitchen unless they are serious. Both ladies were never taken to to medical to be x-rayed.
We had an old lady here that slipped and fell in the parking lot of the Oregon State Police department and officers asked if she was OK. She said yes, and continued walking. Now she’s in a wheelchair because she never got treated for a broken hip.
There is a lady at CCCF that had a baby with ta man that turned out to be abusive. She broke up with him, but gave his new girlfriend a ride to a hotel so she could see her child. The new girlfriend said she didn’t have a wallet with her so the lady checked her here into a room, as she though it was for her ex boyfriend. It turned out he was pimping the new girlfriend and she was only 16, so the lady got charged with promoting prostitution, even though she didn’t know what was going on. She also had to register as a sex offender and the abusive ex boyfriend was free to go and pimp other young girls. She was sentenced to 5 years in prison for her ex boyfriend’s crime.