We Are Jane Doe E2: Operation Breakdown
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I'm Erlon Woods. I'm Nigel Poore. We are the hosts and creators of Ear Hustle from PRX's Radiotopia. Ear Hustle is prison slang for eavesdropping, and that's what we do. This season, we're hitting the yard at San Quentin to record the musicians who make that their stage. And paying a visit to my homie Jack, who spent 35 years in solitary confinement. There's also a story about trying to make friends with a person who tore your life apart. Find Ear Hustle wherever you get your podcasts.
Snap Nation, welcome to We Are Jane Doe, part two. Part one details how we got a tip about something big, really, really big, that went down at the women's prison here in California. And this tip led our producers to the story of a remarkable woman named Alexandria Prout. Allie. Allie told us the story of being in prison and being assaulted in prison by a corrections officer and then saving the evidence of the assault so she could take him down later when she got out. And that's exactly what she did. When she left prison, she went to the courts and he was arrested. If you haven't yet heard part one, you're going to want to go back and listen to that. And listeners, please be aware, this story is intense and includes violence, and sensitive listeners should be advised.
After Ali revealed what happened to her, other women started to come forward with their stories of assault. And let's just say, the officers at the prison were not happy about this. That's where we left off. And right now, we're rejoining the story in the prison where Ali's old cellmates still live with these officers watching over them.
On the morning of August 2nd, 2024, Katrina Cameron, former cellmate of Allie, Alexandria Prout, was doing her usual morning things. She was getting ready for the day. She was with her girlfriend and roomie, Christina Wind.
We were
drinking
coffee,
getting our rooms together, making our beds. Like, we were just They're having a regular morning, shooting the shit, talking to each other.
And feeding their pet baby lizard, Toby. And Toby lived in a cup next
to her bed. I consider her just like my child. Other people probably related to like an emotional support animal, I guess. She kept me centered. She gave me a reason to wake up and smile
each morning. Then she heard the officers coming through their unit, giving orders. They told us they were searching
and for us just to walk out with nothing, that we couldn't take nothing with us. I had Toby on me
because we weren't going to leave him behind. Cameron tucked baby lizard Toby into her bra and stepped out of her cell. Me and Wyn were pretty much the last ones out. There were about 160 women in their unit total, and all of them filed out to the dining hall. We know what happened next from internal documents.
It was
really early in the morning that ISU
came
and dragged us out to the chow hall. We also talked to a dozen women who were there about what happened that day. You'll hear some of their voices. This is Irene Avalos, who's almost 60 years old. It's the rude awakening that came and
just told us to get up, get out.
That's just it. We go out, get it over with. It's a regular search. That's what we're thinking. You know, we get searched all the time, actually.
Wisdom Muhammad lived on D-Yard. She said she knew a search was coming, but
Not one time did we think that it was going to be a whole, the whole unit being searched. I didn't think it was going to be that.
We started seeing a bunch of bins coming out of our unit. This is Sarah Toledo. Like really big, like trash bins, kind of. Hey, what's happening? They said they're throwing your guys' property away because they went in there to go do a search.
They watched through the windows of the chow hall as their pillows, shoes, clothing, TVs, even some mattresses, everything that did not fit in a box that's about the size of a mini fridge or six cubic feet, was taken or thrown away. They call this breaking down to six by six. And this was a big deal.
It was horrible because I bought that stuff. You got people here that been here for all their life.
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