Women on Pennsylvania death row need help; Update!

Hello! I am writing to update you on what happen today at the meeting with the new Superintendent Dawn Chamberlain.

She did come to meet with the 4 of us today and gave each of us a chance to express our concerns. She did listen patiently and did not sound like she had any ideas on how to solve the problem here with us.

We talked to her about Lieutenant Sohnleitner, and how everything has changed for us since she has been here. And how she has not kept one word that she gave us. The Superindendent is very much in favour of how the lieutenant is running this unit, how ever we made suggestions and she said that she would look into and see what she can do. I asked, if she would let us know her decisions. She said that when it happen is when we will know, because she does not have time to write each of us.

Here are the things we suggested;

1. We would like to have indoor rec. time together for 2 hours. We asked for this because this is what we did have at one time, even if it was only with one of the death row inmate’s.
2. We asked for craft class once a week, this is something else that we used to have. We would make things that we could send to friends or family.
3. We asked for more detail work, as far as mowing grass, yaking care of cleaning rec. pens, and laundry for this unit. This would also give us more freedom and time out of our cells.
4. We asked about being housed together. She said she was not in favor of that because of security reasons. So, we asked if she would consider housing us with the special needs inmates instead of the ones from general population that are now with us and verbally attack us. We are to live with them since there is no area here that they have to house just us.

Well, these were all of our requests at this meeting. So, now we will just have to see what happens next, but I would like for you to follow up on this and if you have any ideas. Oh! And we did also talk about how we see the doctor and how the law library is not available to us when the lieutenant is not here. She said she would also look into that.

She did mention that she has had the e-mails blocked because she was receiving ones with viruses. All I ask is if you would continue to overload the department of corrections with requests to change things here. Maybe if we get enough pressure there will be changes. Thanks you so much for all you help. Please let the prison system know that you are aware of this meeting and you encourage them to improve the following conditions.

Carol King

Click here and here to read the previous letter.

- Carol King
- Beth Markman
- Shonda Walter
- Michelle Tharp

Keep writing!

(Superintendent) Dawn Chamberlain
P.O. Box 180
Muncy, PA 17756
USA
(570) 546-3171

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