K-Mama: Jail Situation Disgusting

I remember feeling as though I was in a powder keg, just waiting for the right spark to set it off… the women’s side was SO overcrowded (so, exponentially, the men’s had to be twice as bad) that every bunk was full, none of the “enemies” or known lesbians could be segregated due to the lack of space- nor the more dangerous offenders- so fights broke out constantly… because of the lack of bunks, there were what we called “boats” lined up in rows under the stairs (portable bed frames with the rubberized mats we slept on crammed inside them) and since this was out of view of the cameras and viewing glass of the central “pod gods”, all sorts of hijinks went on under there… Most vividly, I recall a girl, couldn’t have been more than 19 or 20, who was hemorrhaging from a miscarriage in progress. When several of us frantically tried to summon help, the guards were so overwhelmed with crises elsewhere it was a full 20 minutes before a harried male deputy arrived, totally clueless of the situation/ Kendramama . More here .

Question: Rather than trying to explain the need for a new jail in terms of generic need and property tax relief, shouldn’t county officials ask people like Kendramama, who have experienced the need from the inside, to help them sell the expansion idea?