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Prisons Are Preventing Toilets From Flushing

The toilets here have no seats or covers to mask odors. Most are a stainless steel sink-toilet combo, meaning we clean ourselves near them. The State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon building where I’m detained opened in the 1890s and is the oldest of Pennsylvania’s 24 currently operational state prisons. All of the cells on each of its six cellblocks, A through F, are fronted by a wall of bars that allow the unrestricted flow of air in an…
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Prison Journalism Project broke the news on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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