Central California Women’s Facility Prison

I have a friend doing life in prison and I try to stay on top of the operation of the prison.
I also discovered talking to the Warden’s office that they informed me that you do not start at the top. You start at the BOTTOM and work up to the chain of command. Also, they do NOT give extensions to the person that you want to speak with, so I started asking people what THEIR extensions were and I am transferred from there. I also have learned that you contact your STATE representative and they contact the prison for you and you seem to get help from THEM and the state prisons call you back when you go to someone above them.
You may make mistakes and have to serve time, but the people calling up to check on the well being of the prisoner should NOT be treated the way they obviously treating the prisoner. It is our money that pays the staffs salary!
Also call the omnubudsman and see if you get help from them as well. This is disgraceful!

I’ve been writing someone for over a year, and their mail service there is horrible. Letters are stacked up and get delivered 6 to 8 weeks behind. According to the lady I write to, none of the officers want to work in the mailroom. The mail is now being stacked up in the warehouse because there is no room for it in the mail room. There seems to be a lack of discipline or responsibility among the officers that work there. I wonder if most of them are women or men? I’ve written to people in Tehachapi, CA and also Avenal for a long time, and I never had a problem there. CCWF just seems like a really loose ship if you ask me. The officers want to punish the inmates by having them wait 2 months to get their mail? These people that work there need their @ss kicked in a major way, but they seem to be accountable to no one.

Well if you want to see where baby killers, rapists, murderers and the rest of the scum of the earth go to relax and get all their medical attention needs met, then you’re in the right place.
If you think these women have it bad then you don’t know jack. now lets get this straight here, the inmates here get everything they want and it doesn’t come from the officers it comes from administration. according to the people on the free world, prison life for the women is harsh like they’re not getting their needs met or the medical attention they need, well they actually get better treatment than the average person on the outside gets from regular physicals, surgeries, teeth cleaning, full grills, designer prescription glasses, things that would normally you would have to put off because its either too expensive to do and you rather go on dealing with the pain than to dish out thousands of dollars to get what you need done when all they have to do is just fill out a copay form and they will get scheduled to be seen and NO they do not have to have money on their books (an account) to get all this wonderful treatment done that you and I would have to make an appt, sit in a waiting room, pay the copay depending on your coverage if any, wait for the dr to tell us that it will take so much of this $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and that your ins will not cover it then schedule the appt to actually get the procedure done, boy i tell you, if i really sit down and write about how it really is i would not finish.
Then you have the ppl that work in the medical dept that actually feel sorry for them because they wine to them about how the officers treat them lol the officers are there to do a JOB not to listen to them wine about how they don’t like the food or that they don’t get along with the other inmates that they’re housed with. That’s the biggest issue they have, not to mention that they complain about not having enough feminine needs like pads or tampons which they use as cleaning supplies like to clean the windows and the floor and just whatever they want to clean.
Everyone has a choice and they have made theirs by not following the rules outside of prison and continue to do so inside of it.
For those of you that think life is too hard on the inside you have it all backwards, imagine, 3 meals a day (2 hot 1 cold) no rent to pay no bills to pay no medical expenses, and their own security guards if and when they get into a fight that will come and save them from getting their ass beat or beating some ass.
Now there’s stories about inmates paying rent but that’s another review lol but pretty much that’s how it is in there.
And for those who «TOUR» the prison and think they know what really goes on in there, why don’t you become an officer first and then make a review or a statement on what you think is like in there or take INMATES words of life in prison, seriously people you really don’t know until you walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk.
Anyways like i said earlier that’s another story.

Lots of chicks here but quality varies.

Well this is kind of weird– didnt think Unilocalers would review a prison but here I go. I left CCWF (I worked there… hellloooo) in December of 08. It was my first CDC experience and to be honest not a great setting. Work is so stressful, management is not good plain and simple. I only had one opportunity to go in the prison and it didn’t look to bad except when you walk into the medical portion of the prison. There were inmates yelling at workers workers yelling at inmates. WHat a mess. It would be interesting to have a tour as Lauren (the other Unilocaler here) to see the actual conditions.