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Jodi News Update #2 – (May 2016)
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Many different so-called “updates” have been written about Jodi Arias’ life at Perryville since she moved there last year, but they have all been riddled with inaccuracies and sensationalist nonsense. It’s not hard to fathom why none of these accounts can be believed. Most have been tabloids, entertainment “news” outlets, bloggers–even a death-row inmate at Perryville desperately seeking attention has tried to hitch her wagon to the Jodi Train. Talk about a collective trash heap. If you really want to know what’s been going on with Jodi for the last year, keep reading.
For the first 30 days at Perryville, Jodi was kept in a state of limbo known as “R and A” (registration and assignment) because D.O.C. (Department of Corrections) refused to classify her. While most inmates go through R and A, those sentenced to natural life usually breeze through this process in under a week because, due to their sentence, there’s no question as to how they are to be classified. All lifers begin on the maximum yard. At least 7 other women were sentenced to natural life in the same year, and none of them were held in this prolonged holding pattern like Jodi, in which she was prevented for a month from calling her family, visiting with her loved ones, or even purchasing envelopes to write them. Nevertheless, Jodi maintained a positive attitude in a letter she managed to send out shortly after arriving in which she described correctional staff at Perryville as “courteous and professional.”
By June 2015, she was mingling with the general population and reconnecting with numerous acquaintances from her previous years at the jail. She was no longer in restraints or confined to her room for 23 hours a day. She’s free to go to the kitchen for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She is offered outdoor recreation for 1-2 hours a day, six days a week. Due to a recently-implemented incentive program, she gets to shower 7 days a week now (instead of 4 days a week). She goes to the library once a week. She’s able to participate in group activities (arts, crafts, board games) every week. Last year, she took a mandatory class for survivors of domestic violence and now participates in a rotating curriculum of self-improvement classes mandated for all inmates on her yard.
Jodi receives one 3-hour visit once a week. She wears restraints to and from visitation, but they’re removed for the duration of the visit. She also wears restraints to the dentist, but by next year, she won’t wear restraints in either circumstance.
She bought a TV last June. It broke so she bought a second one. It broke so she bought a 3rd one. It began to malfunction. She didn’t wait for it to break completely and bought a 4th one–and it ARRIVED broken! She got her 3rd TV back while the manufacturer (Skyworth) makes good on its warranty for the 4th TV. Except for getting ripped off, Jodi has enjoyed having television. She’s hooked on the show Supernatural, she can hardly wait for Season 2 of Mr. Robot to start, and when she wants to laugh, she watches The Big Bang Theory and Modern Family.
With all the TVs she’s had to buy, one might think she’s out of money or maybe has a lot to go around. She doesn’t. The aforementioned death-row inmate wrote a letter about Jodi in a pitiful attempt to gain attention. In this letter, she claimed to have seen Jodi’s financial statement, claimed Jodi has $3,000, and told others not to put money on Jodi’s books, while nearly in the same breath solicited money herself to buy things for her friends. One doesn’t get much fuglier than that. This sad, contemptible person is a liar. Jodi has around $200 on her books right now, nowhere near the 4-figure mark. Also, the inmate telling stories about Jodi is segregated from the population and has no access whatsoever to Jodi’s account statements. Another lie she tried selling is that Jodi is using her friend Ben for money. We asked Ben what he thought about this and he said, “If Jodi is using me for money, she’s doing a terrible job. I don’t give her money–except for Christmas and her b-day.”
A handful of inmates are getting together to write an expose about this inmate and the trouble she stirs up on her yard. Jodi was asked to join them, but she declined, “Absolutely not. I want no part of that. In her letter, she offers plenty of proof of her own connivery, and she was blasted on national TV as a ‘snitch,’ which other inmates here watched. She’s a miserable person in a horrible situation.”
The new air-conditioning units are installed and expected to start operating any day now, so Jodi will endure the dangerous AZ summer a little more comfortably than last year. Although installation was pricey, it should save money in the long run through energy efficiency and fewer heat-related medical incidents (seizures, heat-stroke, dehydration). Over a month ago, the construction crew ruined the cable, which D.O.C. charges Jodi for, and it has yet to be repaired. Her shows flicker in and out, and when they’re in, the picture is too fuzzy to see what’s happening.
Jodi has made many “friends” at Perryville, but she uses the term loosely. She’s friendly to everyone and is closer with some than others, but she adheres to the safe motto of “Trust no one.”
She’s reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. She currently receives the following publications: The Economist, TV Guide, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Marie Claire and Ensign.
Although a tabloid recently and gleefully proclaimed Jodi’s angst over the retrieval of her commissary purchases, the tabloid was wrong, not surprisingly. Jodi is not upset. Kareem Williams was also misquoted throughout as a supposed source. Tabloid writer Alexis TereSCUM’s figurative foray into dumpster diving for Jodi’s grocery receipts is not only creepy, stalkerish and obsessive, but it reveals the writer for the trash that she is by the trash she likes to write. You know the saying: Garbage in, garbage out. Jodi is well-aware that she, like all incarcerated Americans, has no constitutional right to privacy. If idiots like Alexis want to help us keep our Jodi relevant with her pathetic efforts at journalism, then we are happy to keep laughing at Alexis’ expense, who is well-beyond the point of ever being taken seriously again.
Since we just mentioned Kareem, let’s get to that call Jodi had with him several months ago. She didn’t get into trouble, and Kareem wasn’t banned from Perryville–because no rules were broken. Jodi was called in to see the Warden (now retired) the day the call was released to warn her that it had happened. The Warden was coming from a place of concern about Kareem. Jodi hasn’t called him since. An inmate (the aforementioned attention-seeker) claimed Jodi’s cell was searched the same day in search of a cell phone. In fact, every cell in Jodi’s pod was searched, and the search was prompted by rumors of contraband belonging to another inmate. As for the haters who wasted their time calling or emailing the prison about the phone call, the Warden remained indifferent to all of them. Those clowns can waste their own time all they want, but the Warden didn’t let them waste hers. She’d been working around inmates for 30 years and saw nothing wrong with Jodi’s conduct in the call. Of course, the haters freaked out over the amazing chicken fajitas Jodi described. That was pretty hilarious. But not to worry, haters, she’s had them 3 more times since.
Speaking of food, Perryville occasionally participates in fundraisers for LETR (Law Enforcement Torch Run) for the Special Olympics. The prison teams up with a store or restaurant that sells items to inmates at double the price. Half the doubled price goes to the seller of the item, and the other half is the donation to LETR. So far, Jodi has enjoyed Barro’s Pizza, Filiberto’s, Panda Express and Pete’s Fish and Chips. The fundraisers only come around every few months, so Jodi savors them when they do. It’s not always food that’s sold for LETR. Thanks to a fundraiser with American Hotel Register, Jodi recently laid her head on a pillow for the first time in almost 8 YEARS! In the last year, her patronage was responsible for raising $109.29 for LETR/Special Olympics. Other inmates who have been here much longer have contributed substantially more.
Everyone wants to know about the cockblocker incident. (“Cockblocker” is not a bad word, by the way.) Jodi has pondered writing a blog entry about it (at JodiArias.com) but is still undecided. The media of course had to embellish because the facts alone were just too boring. So they used dramatic terms like “verbal altercation,” even “verbal assault” (idiots). In fact, Jodi made a benign comment very common to the local vernacular. It’s been speculated that D.O.C.’s overreaction in disciplining her was due to the above-mentioned phone call. It wasn’t. It was based on the reaction of one officer with a bruised ego who was told about the comment by someone else and to whom Jodi later admitted when that officer confronted her. Remember, the Warden told Jodi she wasn’t in trouble for the call, and in the call, she paints Perryville in an undeservedly favorable light. So, no, it wasn’t the call. I guess if we want to know more about this incident, Jodi will have to blog about it.
Jodi recently launched a book drive, but it’s been very slow to take off because as soon as it started, Perryville began to reject all incoming books for over a month, even though the books were from approved vendors like BN.com. After people called to complain and inquire, the mail and property department decided to fix their mess and is now accepting books again. If everyone contributed JUST ONE BOOK, the drive would be a gigantic success and it would enrich the library’s selection for all the women on Jodi’s yard. Remember to go through BN.com (Amazon is no longer accepted.)
Her mail is still pouring in and it’s become a mini mountain that she has likened to a glacier (pre-global-warming era): “It shrinks, it expands, but it never disappears.”
Her family has come to visit her twice. They would come more often if they could, but as Jodi puts it, “They’re broke.” Her grandmother recently passed away. Jodi often said her grandma was her “favorite person on the planet.” She’s holding up all right. She mourns privately in her room, not openly. She said, “The world feels so much emptier,” but she’s glad her grandmother is no longer hurting and uncomfortable. The prison allowed Jodi a special call to her family after her grandmother passed.
In summary:
All in all, and contrary to all the BS rumors continually being banded around, Jodi is doing just great. In fact looking at the bigger picture, Jodi is doing far better than most people.
Remember too… each day that passes takes us one day closer to Jodi’s release date. And with that in mind, let’s also make sure we keep the momentum growing, so the JAA Appellate Fund total can push onwards and through $100,000, and even closer towards raising sufficient funds to help cover the legal fees associated with appealing Jodi’s wrongful conviction.
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If you missed any of our previous posts, click on the links below:
My Truth: I Am Jodi Arias’s Mother – (An interview with Sandy Arias)
The JAA Appellate Fund – Reporting Resumes!
“The Palm Print, Blood & DNA”: (Quotes from Kermit’s Book) Part 2
The Missing Memory Card & Bathroom Photographs
“The Camera & Photos”: (Quotes from Kermit’s Book) Part 1
Kirk Nurmi’s Book: Part 1 of 3 (full transcript)
The Mysterious Boot Print (revisited)
It’s Kermit v Nurmi in the battle of the BS books
Jodi Arias – “Chandelier” – the mini-movie
Child Porn & The Joy of Executions
“ALEXSCAMMERS, this one’s for you… my compliments” – (by Jade)
“Monumental Incompetence” (a post by Jade)
Today’s BS Hearing, 6/22 — The Mysterious Stench of Decomp & BS
My Reply To Kirk Nurmi’s BS — Survivor Day – June 4th – Celebrate The Day!
Sky Hughes – Email Exchange r.e. TA’s Pedo Antics (June 2010)
Chris Hughes – Liar & Pedo-Hugger (trial testimony from 2013)
TA’s Pedophile Letter Handwriting Comparison – (Part 2)
TA’s Pedophile Letter to Jodi Arias – (Part 1)
The Jodi Arias Verdict: My Thoughts On “Pedo-Huggers United”
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In the meantime…
WE ARE TEAM JODI – AND WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS in our quest for JUSTICE FOR JODI.
Never question it.
Never doubt it.
Prepare for it.
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SJ
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