Arizona Department of Corrections

as of 10/26/2008 There continues to be problems getting food or water during the 7-hour visitation day at the Tucson Catalina Unit. In total there are two food machines, one snack machine, one coffee machine and two soda machines. If they were all in working order all of the time there would be plenty of food and drinks for the visitors. Unfortunately, there is ALWAYS AT LEAST TWO machines that are out of order on any given weekend day! This past weekend, only ONE of the food machine's was... Read Full Story

UPDATE on visitation problems at the Tucson-Catalina unit. Some things have changed in visitation since our original post dated this past February. At that time, there were numerous complaints about the two CO's who were in charge of running the visitation area. CO Glenn seemed a little bit "creepy" and CO Hayes was taking things way out of context and antagonizing most of us. Many months have Read Full Story

Update: Tucson-Catalina Unit Visitation for the weekend of 4/26 and 4/27 VISITATION IS WORSE THAN EVER!! I don't know what Deputy Warden Ochoa did to improve the conditions in visitation but whatever it was, it did not work! CO Hayes is WORSE! She continues to be rude and unprofessional except for now she is hiding behind the visitation "policy" in saying that she is just enforcing the rules. Read Full Story

FOOD AND WATER are hard to find in visitation at TUCSON CATALINA UNIT. Seems like every week there is a problem with the vending machines. At least two of the four are broken at all times. Last weekend, there was NO bottled water or food for most of the day! Now that the visitation hours have changed, shouldn't the vending machine hours also change? If you are someone who visits from noon to Read Full Story

*********************UPDATE as of 4/21/08 ********************** It was brought to my attention last night that this blog has gotten more than a few people at ADC pretty upset. Apparently at least one regular visitor received a phone call yesterday regarding the problems with visitation at the Tucson-Catalina Unit. According to my source, the deputy warden of that unit - Blanca Ochoa - insists Read Full Story