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- When the female inmates were woken in the early morning and evacuated from the temporary structures to sit at tables in jail’s day-rooms they carried out only an ID card. The few possessions that inmates are allowed were swept out with the tornado scattered across fields and stuck in the fences. Personal effects are not part of the recovery effort because they would be too much of a logistic security issue.
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- The first full day of cleanup continues at the Pasco Jail after a tornado demolished a temporary housing structure and tossed AC units around on the roof.
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- The first full day of cleanup continues at the Pasco Jail after a tornado demolished a temporary housing structure and tossed AC units around on the roof.
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- “While I Was Gone, is another study in familial crime and punishment,” according to its Amazon.com description. When the female inmates were woken in the early morning and evacuated from the temporary structures to sit at tables in jail’s day-rooms they carried out only an ID card. The few possessions that inmates are allowed were swept out with the tornado scattered across fields and stuck in the fences. Personal effects are not part of the recovery effort because they would be too much of a logistic security issue.
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- The first full day of cleanup continues at the Pasco Jail after a tornado demolished a temporary housing structure and tossed AC units around on the roof.
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- The first full day of cleanup continues at the Pasco Jail after a tornado demolished a temporary housing structure and tossed AC units around on the roof.
The women were evacuated minutes before a tornado ripped off a wing of the jail. They walked out with ID cards and left their few belongings to blow across the back lawn and into fences.
A picture package of cliche personal effects after a natural disaster has a little more meaning when these are the only things that an inmate controls.
- Picture – 3 year old in grandma’s lap
- Letter – Written in spanish, starts Hola Lico
- English Muffin
- “No Turning Back”, number 267 in “The Gunsmith” series
- “While I Was Gone”, An Oprah Book Club selection about familial crime and punishment
- Letter – Starts “Amanda, You say you feel weird talking to a nice guy like me well it feels weird talking with a respectful down to earth chick like you as well.”
- Birthday Card
- Picture – Walmart quality studio portrait of a man
- Letter – From father talking about renovations, bills, weather, bears in the backyard.
- Letter – From mother, includes Sudokus, written in 4 sittings.
- Letter – “Mandy, your time has come…BJ said you broke a window and the cops came and took you to jail.”
- Letter from Public Defender
- Letter – Unfinished, only has one word, “Daddy”.