Bathrooms and Showers by Inmate #1

The bathroom situation needs to be addressed at Carswell. As with everything here, it is not right. When it gets humid here, the toilets sweat and the floor is SOAKED. The solution is cardboard on the floor around the back of the toilets. The floor in front of the toilets is wet and slick as ice.

The shower situation is the one that grosses me out the most. I have shower shoes - thank God but holy moly its still disgusting. The paint in the showers is PEELING everywhere and there is some sort of black crap that is forming. The handicapped shower is the WORST with this crap. Would you want to take a shower standing on black gunk and a peeling paint floor?? Me either but this is Carswell - it is the norm.

The sinks for washing your hands are clean however the soap is significantly watered down and the paper towels they provide are constantly minimal in amount and gone thru fast.

After the morning shower and bathroom rush, in my unit, half the bathroom is cleaned and not to be used until 2:45pm. This means three less stalls to use, 3 less sinks and 3 less showers for almost 300 people!!!!!! I am not sure if other units do this but ours does this every day without fail. We are left with 5 bathroom stalls, 4 showers and 3 sinks when that ban is in effect. One of our showers is permanently down as it was leaking and they did the biggest half ass fix that left a hole in the wall that you can see thru from the other side where people walk back and forth. I say hole but what I mean is about a 12" x 2" section of missing wall.. no one will take a shower in there. Would you??? I understand this is prison but these are SIGNIFICANT health hazards that need to be addressed.