Because the shower curtains are inadequate, when women use the shower, they are exposed to other inmates and to staff personnel, some of whom are male. Inmate Gail Daws commented on the shower situation. While taking showers, the shower curtains are clear plastic up to our knee area. Most times there are male guards, other inmates, male maintenance workers, and male inmates who are in our dayroom while we are in the showers. 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.