The water is turned off at different times for unknown reasons. Water leaks in at various places even when there is no rain. Water leaked into an inmate s cell through the ceiling. When she got out of bed, not knowing there was water all over the floor, she slipped and sprained her ankle and injured her knee. There are cracks in various areas, especially at the top of the center stairs, going all the way across the top tier floor in some places and all the way through.
Ceilings sometimes cave in from too much water.
A nurse witnessed the ceiling in the clinic falling on inmate Rachelle Shannon. Maintenance men repaired and painted Room A118 after the ceiling caved in for the second time. This particular ceiling still leaks. The Topeka Correctional Facility did not want to pay for a sewer grinder, so there is a basket on a cable that the sewage flows through. The basket catches the solid waste.