While the leadership in the county is up for grabs, the administration and guards at DCP are doing what they can to keep order on the blocks. And when things are feeling out of control, the guards resort to a new level of cruelty.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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They started shaking us down day after day. Then they started taking some of our clothes. Then they took our paperwork. Then they took everything.
Paperwork at DCP is important. It could be privileged information that's not meant for anyone else to see other than the client and attorney. Losing access to their paperwork could have an impact on their case. The COs had also taken the jail-issued tablets from the inmates in the hole.
That meant no access to religious texts, any entertainment, and all communications to and from the outside world. So friends and family outside of DCP had no idea what was going on. It ended up coming down to it was in a uniform and one blanket. But none of that worked. Somehow the inmates in the hole were still getting synthetic marijuana.
Inmates and former staff at DCP have reported that staff were the ones bringing the drugs and other contraband in. When the COs realized that they were using the lights and outlets in the cell to spark up, the jail leadership tried a new tactic. They cut the power completely. That meant the lights stayed off, and there wasn't heat in the cells either.
It was December in central Pennsylvania, and with only a thin uniform and blanket to protect them after the shakedowns, the people down in the hole were at risk of hypothermia.
I ain't gotta lie, they slowed all the smoking down a little bit, but it didn't stop.
Without light, without heat, it was even worse. Don and the other people in that block had nothing. All he could do was sit in his cell and wait.
You're putting people back there with nothing to do. You know, you got nothing, really, you know what I mean? And it's just, it can be mind-boggling. So what do you do? You sit there in your head all day. Now you tell me, is that good for somebody that's already dead? Mentally distressed, like, it can't be. I think they was just using it as a tool to make us suffer, you know what I mean?
Because they couldn't control the contraband in their jail, so we suffer for it.
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