FOOD and WATER supply still a problem at the TUCSON CATALINA UNIT VISITATION

as of 10/26/2008
There continues to be problems getting food or water during the 7-hour visitation day at the Tucson Catalina Unit. In total there are two food machines, one snack machine, one coffee machine and two soda machines. If they were all in working order all of the time there would be plenty of food and drinks for the visitors. Unfortunately, there is ALWAYS AT LEAST TWO machines that are out of order on any given weekend day! This past weekend, only ONE of the food machine's was working, the snack machine was broken, the "new" food-machine was broken (and has been for the last two to three weekends in a row), the coffee machine had no coffee and BOTH soda machine's were out of water. On Saturday there was very little food in the one food machine that was actually working so it was really a matter of luck if you were able to eat or not. I don't know about you all, but to go 7 hours (plus travel time which in many cases is another 2 hours) without food is NOT asking for too much. I'm not sure what is going on over at the Tucson Catalina Unit but the fact that the food situation continues to get worse and worse is unacceptable. At some point we need to decide whether this is a violation of our civil rights. How hard is it to provide food and water during visitation? Can DOC get away with this? As far as I know this is one of the few yards with that problem. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP and get this problem fixed!!! PLEASE!!!