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 We shared a message (https://www.moprisonreform.org/2021/03/a-fake-jpay-account-made-by-mtc.html?m=1  )we received from a man who’s incarcerated at Maryville Treatment Center regarding a DOC employee who created a fake JPay account and messaged him and another incarcerated man at the same facility.  Today we received a message from the other man she messaged.   Edited to add: This incarcerated man’s name […]

So many incarcerated individuals have extreme trauma in their past, current mental health issues, or both. In an effort for more people to see that the incarcerated are human beings just like you and me, I told LeVar that I was interested in some of the people we communicate with sharing their stories if they […]

 We received another message about the pepper-spraying of the Muslims who were praying at ERDCC recently. Here’s the message we received:  “While inmates were on their knees, praying, staff maced them and put them in the hole. I’ll say it again–PRAYING. So, staff bring drugs into prison, spread covid to us, deny us medical treatment, […]

 We were informed a few weeks ago of a female staff member at Maryville Treatment Center who made a fake Jpay account in order to message at least two incarcerated men at the facility about meeting her in certain places at the treatment center and other things. We’ve confirmed the situation with staff who work […]

 We’ve been told that some of the incarcerated individuals in ad-seg at ERDCC broke off the sprinkler heads in several units so water has been shut off until the sprinkler heads can be fixed. Hopefully the department of corrections addresses this quickly so everyone there has access to water. 

 Cases are done or gone in most MoDOC facilities (according to their website https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/data ) so why aren’t we seeing visits open up yet? 

 We received another message from an incarcerated individual at ERDCC regarding Covid-19, social distancing, and more. 

 We were told of an incident on 2/28 of some individuals at ERDCC being maced. Today we received information about an assault on a corrections officer. Here’s information we received on both incidents from an incarcerated individual. The facility is no longer on lockdown from what we’ve been told. 

Incarcerated individuals are human beings. They’re more than “offenders”. So many of them have trauma in their past. They are people. Here’s one story from an incarcerated man in Missouri. 

 MoDOC has updated the COVID-19 data on their website.  https://doc.mo.gov/media-center/newsroom/covid-19/data