Advocates for incarcerated women highlight water issues at Pennsylvania’s SCI Muncy

Ladies incarcerated at State Correctional Establishment Muncy close to Williamsport have been reaching out to boost consciousness about water provide points on the jail, based on advocates.

Dana Lomax-Ayler was incarcerated at SCI Muncy. She is now a jail advocate who runs the Delaware County chapter of the Coalition to Abolish Dying By Incarceration.

Lomax-Ayler, who speaks with prisoners throughout the state, stated she discovered that jail models are being requested to refill containers from a water storage tank, as a result of their predominant water supply has been discolored because the weekend.

“They had been getting brown water by way of all their sources, all their taps,” she stated.

The Pennsylvania Division of Corrections confirmed the water downside, issuing a press release on social media on Tuesday. A spokesperson with the Pennsylvania DOC stated that the water points at Muncy started on Sept. 23.

The DOC stated after consulting with the Division of Environmental Safety, SCI Muncy is now offering water coolers on every unit and bottled water with every meal.

“The DEP has suggested that the water is protected to make use of for bathing and cooking,” the DOC assertion stated. “SCI Muncy has been receiving water from Montgomery Borough for the previous a number of months as the ability’s unbiased water plant undergoes upkeep.”

Since earlier this week, advocates have been pushing to ensure these in restricted housing and others with mobility points obtain sufficient clear water day by day with a social media and call-in marketing campaign.

“Generally once we don’t have water is the time once we want it probably the most,” stated one advocate who didn’t wish to be named as a result of a member of the family is incarcerated at Muncy. “These are females, and definitely sure occasions of the month you must use extra water than at others.”

State Correctional Establishment Muncy is one in every of two all-women prisons within the commonwealth. The opposite facility, SCI Cambridge Springs, is positioned in Northwestern Pennsylvania.

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