i wanted to actually break down and cry when i seen her come in. the m.a.s.h. unit is set up for the inmates to take care of the animals. but sometimes the animals take care of the inmates. you re a good girl. loomis says caring for the horses has helped him cope with the anger problems with brought him to jail. i m bipolar and i m also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome. i stopped taking my medications and i started going off and blowing up at home. i m starting to lose my temper, starting to do things that i normally don t do. and next thing i know, the cops are at my door and i m getting arrested for domestic violence and criminal damage. and now i m here doing my time. my mom owns race horses. she is a training owner. it s a loving, caring thing. you know. she babies the horses like they were little babies and i learned to do the same thing. you got to have love and care for them.
we get animals in that are literally skin and bones. we nurse them back to health. we resocialize them. we get them used to being around people. and once their court case is cleared, we take actual ownership of the animal, we adopt them out to a good home. good boy. the animals are cared for by inmate workers who have no history of animal abuse. male inmates take care of the horses and other farm animals. we get accused of standing around scratching our ass all day here at m.a.s.h. unit. best job on the yard. i bond more with the dogs here than any of the girls on the yard. what i like best about the dogs is they don t argue with everything that you say like the inmates do. abigail, calm down. you know, i m very strong on animal cruelty. anybody that violates or abuses animals goes directly to jail. i don t give them a ticket. i don t care their occupation.
you re my helper for the rest of the night. you re going to help us with chow and then whatever else the trustees are going to do, you re going to be this right hand person. there s chaff, so you re mine. i can t stand it inside. while black will have a night of extra tasks ahead of her. she needs to be back at her inmate job the next morning. she works in what is known at maricopa as the m.a.s.h. unit. m.a.s.h. stands for the maricopa county sheriff s office animal safe haven. we regularly get animals in that are at death s door. m.a.s.h. is a housing unit for abused animals whose owners are incarcerated at maricopa. its located in one of the original jail facilities, which was shut down for human occupants in 1999.
i wanted to actually break down and cry when i seen her come in. the m.a.s.h. unit is set up for the inmates to take care of the animals. but sometimes the animals take care of the inmates. you re a good girl. loomis says caring for the horses has helped him cope with the anger problems with brought him to jail. i m bipolar and i m also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder syndrome. i stopped taking my medications and i started going off and blowing up at home. i m starting to lose my temper, starting to do things that i normally don t do. and next thing i know, the cops are at my door and i m getting arrested for domestic violence and criminal damage. and now i m here doing my time. my mom owns race horses. she is a training owner. it s a loving, caring thing. you know. she babies the horses like they were little babies and i learned to do the same thing. you got to have love and care for them. if you don t, what good is
several people appear to be injured, and trace gallagher is live with our breaking newsroom with more on this, trace? the number we re getting is 50 we talked to amtrak they are slammed right now, trying to get information out, the reason first responders are not on scene yet, this happened just a short time ago, the helicopters were able to get up in the air before the first responders got onscene. the train, some of the passengers said started to shake before it went off. we have seen a number of these types of derailments before usually more times than not, it s because the train hit something on the track, some kind of a truck or car that got on the track. in this case we don t see any indication there, we see the first signs of first responders. they re trying to triage they will go through and get the passengers out, and just like they do in a mash unit they will triage them, the worst injured to the lesser injured, they will treat them as follows, these amtrak trains and this