In the “Lockdown Yard” aka SMUs aka SuperMax Units. Here are descriptions.
You got nothin comin’ to you here. These are the SMUs in Eyman, Morey (Lewis) and death row. Most of these guys are people that just keep getting tickets and getting into fights. Some are chomos, cheetos, snitches, switches and other undesireable and unmanageable inmates. I’ll explain all that later. Single-man cells. You don’t go to the shower, the shower comes to you. It’s mobile. You read your mail on a closed-circuit TV monitor. Non-contact visitation, if you even get it at all. No phone calls. You are always handcuffed whenever you are out of your cell.
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A level 5 yard SMU 1, SMU 2, Central Unit, do not have mobile showers, the showers are at the front of each run, and you are handcuffed to and from the shower. Furthermore, you receive your mail around 7 pm every day but Sunday, no closed circuit tv, it is delivered just like every other yard.
Darcy is in SMU 1 or SMU I as he puts it. The two paragraphs above did not come from Darcy Dale Hurley. They came from Prison Talk Forums (Link below) when the first guy was giving some definitions and the second was someone giving some corrections. The casual offender does not end up in places like the Arizona SuperMax (SMU). It would take a problem offender to land in an SMU. The statement about “getting into fights” is describing Darcy. I suspect he gets into a lot of fights and probably earns most of them. His online rap sheet is riddled with fight complaints and he also said in his phone call the other day that he got into a fist fight after being in the yard for a short while.
He said that the fight the other day was started by someone else and he was only defending himself. I somehow wonder if that’s true or whether Darcy Hurley brought it on himself. Darcy is far from the Model Prisoner that some of my pen pals are and he does not seem to be mellowing with age. He is over 50 and much too old to be getting into fist fights like a bad boy in a schoolyard. I wonder if he told me that to make me think he is being picked on? Well Darcy Hurley will be for a rough pen pal ride from now on if he continues to write. I can’t wait to see how he ‘explains’ why he didn’t get out on August first! This is going to be interesting.
http://www.prisontalk.com/forums/showthread.php?s=bf8927e82cdd3a7617fcf190d6e09e6b&t=313636