Jan Hamilton: The Reformer in POD-C
On the phone, her voice sounded calm, light, almost light-hearted. “I feel safe from them in here.” Jan Hamilton was describing her life as an inmate in POD-C at the Park County Jail in Fairplay, CO. A senior, diagnosed with cancer, she was placed in the small, bone chilling cell – as she puts it – “to die.” The door to her cell has a four by 10-inch slot that offers a view of the women’s dining hall. One of the inmates had threatened her life, so she was placed in insolation, she was told, for her own safety. “There are 20 inmates in this section. Most are lesbians.” In a hand-written letter, she described the conditions of her cell. Reading it, it seemed almost as if she was giving Rachel Maddow and Sally Kohn a guided tour of her small cell along with a team of investigators: including a lawyer from Human Rights Watch, someone from the Elder Abuse hotline, and a senior official from the Colorado Department of Corrections. “My bed is sheet metal. There is no heat, I have only two thin blankets to keep me warm, and I’ve spent 10 days and nights in the same bloody clothes. In the middle of the cell is “a 14 inch drain is filled with stagnant contaminated sludge where bugs come and go 24/7.” Could Hell be worse? When Jan was transferred from her hometown of Aspen – where she had spent most of her adult life – to Fairplay, she realized that it could be a one-way journey. As she tells it: “Officer Bird, who locked up my cancer...
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