REQUEST FOR ACTION AT MUNCY- 

PENNSYLANIA DEATH ROW UNIT

Shonda Walters, Michelle Tharp and Carolyn King are the female prisoners on Pennsylvania Death row. Recently they were moved to another Unit, Block C. This is the punishment Block for all prisoners with disciplinary punishment. They had to clean the extremely filthy cells before they went in and then they cleaned the cells again to make them more or less habitable. Further problems with this unit are unrelenting noise (shouting, screaming, banging), it's dirty and they aren't given regular work detail to clean up (food spills, the showers, etc.) as in the other pod, their cells have a rank smell and Shonda's cell has bad plumbing; and because of insufficient staff the time out of their cells for activities has become very irregular. The constant high level of noise causes unbearable stress for the ladies, so please take action and help them!

Ask Superintendent Chamberlain to move them to a better Unit. Further specific requests:

- That the superintendent find a way to have staff control the noise level in the pod where the death row women are housed. Despite the fact that the women have a history of being model prisoners they are subjected to the constant calling out, shouting, screaming and banging of the youth and general population disciplinary inmates on that pod.

- That the death row women be given rec separately from A and C pods so that at least at that time they can experience some quiet and piece of mind.

- That the women be taken out of their cells for work detail and activities on a schedule or with some regularity.

Send a letter to the Superintendent (you can use the model letter, but expressing your concern in your own words should be preferred):

We thank you for your assistance and for adding your voice to ours!

Superintendent Dawn Chamberlain,

SCI Muncy,

P. O. Box 180,

Muncy Pennsylvania

17756