Free Response to Motion - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

DeLong Statement
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Scientific study of the long-term effects of current supermax incarceration is
underway, but the results are far from conclusion. We will not know the long-term
effects of such treatment for another twenty to thirty years, as these offenders are
released and or executed (as SMU is also Arizona's “Death Row”].
An inmate on SMU does have the right to books and periodicals. However, he can
only receive these direct from the publisher by subscription. A friend or relative
cannot send a previously read issue or even one purchased and not mailed directly
to the inmate. Books must he soft-cover and also come from either the prison
library, which the inmate never visits, or directly from a bookselier such as
A.maz>on.com.
An inmate can receive no direct gifts. Even a gift as small as a postage stamp is
forbidden to be enclosed in a letter to the inmate. Such material is eonliscated, not
placed in the inmates account. There are no Christmas or holiday packages from
friends or relatives.
The inmate does have the right to make a phone call. lf the recipient is not in the
immediate prison locale it is long distance and made collect and each call is
recorded.
The inmate has the right to a two-hour visit once per week. Thick glass security
panels separate the inmate and all conversation is monitored. The inmate’s visitor
is tbrbidden by prison policy from visiting any other inmate in the entire Arizona
Prison System at any time while on the visitation list for an inmate at SMU ll.
Exercise is extremely limited, and ofcourse, solitary. No longerqf as was the ease in
Koch) is the inmate adjacent to others in mesh-separated pens that allow for some
lltllllan—t·¤·—·Iluman interaction. Presently exercise is in a completely enclosed “‘yar*d'”
open to the sky with a handball available. Use of the handball, however, adds to the
noise on the unit for the other inmates and most chose not to use it rather than
further irritate their already oversensitive neighbors.
Visitation staff is professional, courteous, helpful, flexible and even compassionate.
They seem to understand the necessity of even limited human contact to the welfare
of botlt the inmate and the visitors.
There is no doubt that a "lEIonzai Bob"’ incarcerated on SMULI would be virtually
incapable of injuring another inmate. Such individuals are extremely rare however,
and there is no evidence that Hampton poem any significant threat to any other
inmate.
Case 2:03-cv—01706-NVW Document 66-10 Filed 10/18/2006 Page 1 of 1

Case 2:03-cv-01706-NVW

Document 66-10

Filed 10/18/2006

Page 1 of 1