Here’s the latest Jodi News Update (#108) for May 2022:
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Lumley Unit, where Jodi resides at Perryville, has once again undergone changes imposed by higher-ups… those corporate heads who neither live nor work at Perryville, but sit in air-conditioned offices an hour away in Phoenix with grand ideas of fixing what isn’t broken and ignoring what is. Much of the population at Perryville was recently moved around to various units.
In Arizona, most prison inmates fall under one of four custody levels in the following descending order:
1. Maximum
2. Close
3. Medium
4. Minimum
Jodi is medium custody. Maximum custody was eliminated at Perryville. Close custody, from 2018 until last month, was split between two units. Now, all close custody inmates reside on Lumley Unit. One yard remains medium custody. Another houses a mixed bag comprising the mental health unit (close-custody adjacent), detention (those under investigation), and inmates awaiting classification.
Jodi moved off the yard with air conditioning last November and in with a smoker who, out of courtesy, stopped smoking inside the cell while Jodi housed there. Now, Jodi lives with a nonsmoker in a room with a swamp cooler.
She’s working full-time. She’s not taking college courses anymore. She hated them, despite her 4.0. She wants to learn German. She’s still making awesome art – check out ArtbyJodiArias.com and Instagram.com/ArtbyJodiArias for more info.
Earlier this month, she hugged her family for the first time since before the pandemic. Visitation had been cancelled since March 2020, then was re-implemented in June 2021 with lots of social-distancing protocols. This month, the Department began allowing visitors to hug again, so Jodi practically had the air squeezed out of her by family who missed her dearly.
One of the most nonsensical things that persists in Arizona’s prisons is the mask requirement for inmates and officers. Despite Arizona’s governor having long since declared an end to the state of emergency from the pandemic and the CDC lifting mask mandates, Perryville remains ever behind on the times.
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And remember, folks… each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date.
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Leave your thoughts & comments below.
SJ
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Great update, SJ. Thanks for sharing!
Hey. The last letter from Jodi I received was in August, 2013. I stopped writing, so there that is. The last address I had for her was in Phoenix, AZ/Durango Street, and a different inmate number.
Want to verify Goodyear, AZ is her current address.
I honestly wonder what happened to me in nine years that I didn’t write to her. Yet, she has never been out of my thoughts. Please let her know that. And I will write. To Goodyear, AZ?
Jodi will be pleased to hear from you whenever.
Jodi Arias #281129
ASPC — Perryville
Unit — Lumley
P.O. Box 3300
Goodyear, AZ 85338
Is the above still Jodi’s current mailing address?
Are there restrictions on type/size of letter that can be written (ie way back when it was just a postcard) and what you can write about? Just wondering….exchanged a few letters many years ago and would love to write again if Jodi is accepting letter.
Jodi Arias #281129
ASPC — Perryville
Unit — Lumley
P.O. Box 3300
Goodyear, AZ 85338
Read the Write to Jodi post for guidelines.