Conditions at Chowchilla

More women are incarcerated in the small Central Valley town of Chowchilla - where the largest women's prison in the country is across the street from the second largest -   than any other place in America. The  two adjacent state prisons are the Central California Women's Facility with around 3,500 inmates, and  the Valley State Prison for Women, with another 3,400 (both facilities were designed to house 2,000 inmates each).

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/09/18295787.php

For many pre-op transwomen in California male prisons those conditions described would feel like heaven.

I would rather do ten years there as cis-woman than one year in my homecountry's male prison.

This has nothing to do with me but i wonder will they treat post-op transwomen worse than cis-women in Chowchilla?

Hi Tekla, Thank you for posting this link. One paragraph stood out from all the others although much of what this lady wrote brought tears to my eyes.

QuoteI am learning to live in the moment, to seek joy in small glimpses, to value the wisdom of the universe despite my surroundings and the constant fear. I am learning to look for the love and goodness in most people despite the facade or anger they may exhibit.

If those statistics are correct then it is quite possible for us to break some silly ass law in some backwoods town populated with tobaccie chawin red necks and end up with our ass in such a jail just for being different let alone TS, TG, or an alien from Outer-space.

The woman who wrote that was not breaking some silly law, 25-life is a sentence in California for first degree murder.  And she says she is not guilty.  So does every other person in there.

In case there was a magical tool I really would consider to trade places with her.

In case I would be innocent.
I do not want to become ever a murderer.

Tekla hon, please listen carefully to what I am saying and stop putting stuff there that isn't there. When I speak I speak without malice, rancor, and without any hidden agendas nor messages. Read my posts at face value, please! Thank you.

I was sympathising with the lady but also admiring her strength. I'm just an old woman I wouldn't last two days in one of those places, nor would I last long on the streets anymore either. Take me behind the barn and shoot me.

I wasn't insinuating she was in there because she broke some silly ass law. She was wrongly charged with murder and according to her numbers there are;

Quote1,300,000 non-violent people currently incarcerated

I wouldn't want to be among those number getting locked up in one of those places for some Petty violation, which is a possibility in Texas someone mentioned.

Cindy

She is accused, tried, and convicted of killing her husband because his divorcing her would upset plans for her business expansion.  Murder for profit.  Murder one.  Killed him, put his body in a car and dumped it.  And the defense that didn't work for her?  She tried to blame her daughter for it.  Nice lady.

Ok there was another side to this record. Do you have any other links we could follow up on this?


Cindy

Put her name into Google, she been featured on the series "Women Who Kill" so they no doubt would have clips of her.  It was a huge trial, with several appeals.

The July trial of Jane Dorotik, who was found guilty in June of
beating and strangling her husband, then dumping his body along
his favorite running path, was covered gavel to gavel by the CBS
news magazine "48 Hours," which aired the story during a hour long
segment last month.

Thanks I found the article and read it. I tried to open a video they had on AOL but like usual most times stuff on AOL is *kapootskie.* Wing Walker is working on getting a download on it from Peer-2-peer file sharing program.

Cindy