This is a place to call home. Food is terrific. I recommend it to anyone committing criminal activity. No worries for anything you'll be well taken care. Of read more

The condiotion of the jail reminded me of what I learned concentration camps were like and what it's like for illegal aliens who cross the border and await getting picked up for where they will work and live. That's the best example in can give. What needs to improve?.....Everything. Staff retraining, medical staff screened, dietary review, program coordinating. The pod I was on was over 120 girls on bunk beds in one room. There where fruit flies all times of the day covering the toilets,vents,drains,and bunk beds. The issue or black mold exposure is real and putting women at risk for sure. Eight showers in one room, eight toilets in another, and that's where flash backs or Hitler documentaries and concentration camps flash before my eyes.. No curtains or doors,no privacy.You eat on your bunk,live on your bunk,during my week stay we never even were given the option of an hour of reck time for fresh air even once. There are no programs available besides GED except in your tablet which I couldn't take advantage of because I was never provided headphones even though I wrote multiple requests for them. Medical treatment is scary here, I watched many women become sickly during my stay, symptoms not taken seriously,illnesses being overlooked. The way the staff address the inmates is constantly demeaning and ignorant, in could go as far as say almost as inhumane as what were served every night for dinner.. That's the biggest difference I recognized between this jail and corp civic in Florence. I can't believe it was acceptable to staff to crack jokes on inmates for missing teeth,being overweight, or struggling from withdrawal. It's was just a big joke to the officers,everything was. You have to do chores to get a clean outfit...leaving withdrawing women without a blanket or sheet and in the same soiled clothes even after begging for help.You are fed twice a day,the same meal every day is served for both breakfast and dinner; I pray for the women who have been sitting in county for years. If most of the women in here either struggle with mental issues or addiction I don't see how sentencing someone to experience a situation like this can help them to improve their lifestyle or become a better functioning member of society. read more

Estrella Women's Jail - Jails & Prisons Near Me - Phoenix, Arizona

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This place is really awful yes, I understand jail time isn't supposed to be fun, or pleasant. But I totally understand where all these ladies are coming from. Cleanliness is the biggest issue. I got sick my second day there. I could handle the bathrooms not having doors, I'm not really shy. However they should really have curtains on the showers. The meals are ridiculous. I mean come on.... at least give the inmates some cereal? Or a bowl of ramen? Those packs cost less than a dollar! Lastly the lack of understanding about mental health and safety is horrendous. Mental health issues are extremely important and punishing people for having mental health responses to stressful situations is abusive and harmful to the individual. I was only in for 3 days thank the good lord. But oh my gosh I can't imagine how many poor woman had to go through such awful things for such a long period of time. That's pretty much it, all in all no jail isn't supposed to be luxurious or fun, but at least have some humanity and treat people as people. Not like trash. read more

Where do I begin.... This is not the place you want to be. I self surrendered for 6 days and it was the longest 6 days of my life. Work release and work furlough have been removed since covid and they wont be getting that back anytime soon-let alone ever. I self surrendered on a Thursday at 11 a.m. at Lower Buckeye Jail. To be processed into Jail takes an extremely long time just a heads up. It took me exactly 15 hours till I got to my designated dorm room/facility. Once you are changed into your orange outfits. You get transported on a bus to the woman's jail which is called Estrella. Everything has been updated and changed since covid. So they don't allow you to bring beach towels, books, cash, nothing like that except your medications. Make sure your medications come in the original bottle from the pharmacy with your name on it or they wont accept it. They do allow collect calls or if you have a family member/friend that put money on your books, you can talk on the phone.m No more than 20 minutes at a time though. I made the mistake of leaving the list of phone numbers I needed in my other change of clothes so I couldn't get a hold of anyone to put money on my books. The reason you want money on your books is because they hand out tablets at certain parts of the day if the DO allows it. On the tablet you can watch movies, make calls, and use a messaging app to keep in touch with people. Again, you can't watch the movies or use the messaging app without money on your books. Someone in your family or a friend will need to go on the jail website, find your booking number, then put money on that way. You also need to do the same for when making collect calls. You get a small mattress to put on your bed, you get 2 hand towels to shower with, 1 night gown, 1 pair of pink socks, 2 pairs of underwear, 1 pair of sandals, 1 bra, and you get to change your clothes out once a week. I recommend changing out of your orange shirt/pants while sleeping and into your nightgown because you can sweat at night, and your clothes start to smell, especially without having any deoderant. You also get 1 small toothbrush, toothtaste, headphones (for the tablet), and a small comb. Once a week they allow you to order Canteen which is where you can order hygene products and some snacks. I didn't get the chance to since I was there for only 6 days but if you are there longer, you definitely want money on your books for that as well. You can order up to $100 worth of things for canteen at a time. My dorm had up to 140 girls and the beds are all bunk bed style, going from bottom, middle, then third level. I was on the bottom level which wasn't bad except sometimes girls will look on your bunk for extra food if you save any. Luckily I didn't have that problem but a lot of other girls did. Just to warn you they don't feed you a lot at all. I lost weight just being there for 6 days. The best breakfast I got was a tiny bag of rice crispy cereal with some milk and an orange. Other than that the other breakfast/lunch you would get is 1 tiny roll, soy peanut butter, a tiny packet of jelly, an orange, and 1 pack of cookies that had only had 2 cookies in the pack. If you ever want to trade food with someone you can but make sure you have something to offer back or you'll owe someone. For dinner you would get the same thing (roll with soy peanut butter) or you would get something called slop. Not how to describe it other than its the most disgusting thing I've had in my life. They serve slop with the most dry rice I've ever had along with disgusting veggies. You feel like you are being starved so it gets to the point where you have to force yourself to eat. Make sure to be respectful to the other girls, keep your mouth shut, and don't get on the DO (officers) bad side. They are tough woman who will give you a hard time if you give them a reason to. You will go on lock down multiple times a day which is where you go on your bunk and you shut your mouth or you'll get in trouble. There are only 8 showers, and the officers will usually allow showers anytime after 10 am but its hard to find the right time since everyone wants to shower. The showers are warm for the most part and they are open so be prepared to be starred at. Lights are off every night by 11 and are usually woken up by 6 for a head count. The officers do multiple head counts to make sure all inmates are there. There is a bathroom area and those are open as well. There were 8 toilets in my dorm as well. Some tricks I learned while in there.... They don't give you hair ties so I made hair ties out of the sides of face masks. I used the tooth paste they provided as a deoderant and I also used orange peels as deoderant. Another form of deoderant is getting the bar of soap a little wet and applying it. Those methods all work till you can get deoderant from canteen. They don't give you any cups for water so I saved my milk carton for water and would fill that up during the day. read more

Work release and furlough has now been moved to Estrella. You will self surrender at Lower Buckeye jail then be bused to Estrella so if u need ur vehicle when release for work, park at Estrella and walk or get a ride to Lower Buckeye. Bring the following: - 2 towels - 40.00 in dollar bills, no change unless u want to use it for laundry. The commissary machines only take dollar bills - battery alarm clock - watch (no smart watches) - book (soft cover only) - long sleeve shirt read more

Literally,the seventh layer of hell, on a good day. There is no medical pod here,unlike the mens jails, which house sick and withdrawing inmates until they are through their kick, and since most people come in like this there is always the persistent sights and smell of vomit and diarrhea in the air. Also, most of the jail is split into dorms, each hold up too 120 women. Conditions are absolutely abysmal, i mean i know its jail, but more than once in my six month stay someone had shit in the shower, there are no tampons (not even avail on commissary), tooth paste/tooth brush and tiny bar soap (akin to airplane bathroom soap) is it for initial or indigent hygiene items that are provided. Everything else, including shampoo, must be purchase off commissary. Considering we live in arizona, and people come in smelling something fierce, this is absolutely ridiculous because depending out when you came in you could be without the option to buy basic hygiene items for 2 weeks, although now it is up to a week, still terrible and inhumane. The food is disgusting and worse than dog food, and only provided twice daily. Some of the officers are kind, but most are a fucking joke, and the rest clearly have a superiority complex and get off on exercising their power over inmates. There is no visitation, only video visits, and the phones cost outrageous amounts per minute/call. During my six months i saw many women come back two or three times, many of these women had substance abuse problems as a direct or indirect cause of their incarceration. It costs tax payers over 1,000 a day to house an inmate in AZ, while it only costs around 250 dollars a week to fund drug treatment. My biggest takeaway was the recidivism rates correlation with addiction as well as how prevelant, addiction was among inmates. There is a dire need for treatment instead of incarceration for non-violent offenders with drug use history. Until then we will continue wasting money locking up people over and over when we could end the cycle. read more

Went down there to try and get information because the men's jails were closed on the day we went (4th ave) and they were very very rude and unhelpful we we just needed a little bit of help or direction to another jail (like the towers) to find out what we could do. And they were very rude and disrespectful saying that they couldn't do anything for us what so ever (not even directions or what other jails were open to help) because they were a women's only jail. What the hell does a women's only jail have anything to do with directions to 4th ave or the towers to get the information that we need. Don't recommend for anything. Very rude & left a very bad taste in our mouths read more

Would not recommend a stay here. Food is terrible, ( unless you love peanut butter) served twice a day. Staff is full of control freaks who get their rocks off by screaming constantly at the customers. I hope you are a friendly person because The bathrooms do not even have doors. If you get lonely don't worry, there are about 120 females to one large room as well as an outbreak of lice that medical was unprepared to treat during my stay. Thank god the girls I was surrounded by offered to braid my hair and grease it after we all were checked for lice by each other since it would have been a 5$ charge on top of medicated shampoo costs that were unavailable to purchase. I recommend the nacho cheese and tortillas from commissary. Turn a boring meal into a fiesta! read more