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Angela Stanton King · Born Between 2 Generals · America's Future

We are partnering to eradicate this form of insidious behavior inside American jails and prisons — starting at Women's Huron Valley, and not stopping there.

Here is the argument, and it is not a complicated one. Housing people is what a jail is for. That is the function. Keeping the building safe while people are in it is not a reform, not a courtesy, and not a policy preference — it is the basic, fundamental job. A facility that cannot keep mold out of the vents is failing at the one thing it exists to do.

And these women are not going back to population. They are going back to the population — ours. They are coming home to neighborhoods, to jobs, to children who have been waiting. Whatever a facility does to a person's lungs and body, it hands back to the rest of us. A safe environment is the bare minimum on the way to everything else.

More to come.

The Watch · Campaign 01

Five women died.
The state says the air is fine.

Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti is the only prison for women in the state of Michigan. Roughly 1,800 people are held there. Since November 2025, five of them have died. Women inside have been reporting mold in the vents, the showers, and the ceilings for a decade. A federal judge has let their lawsuit move forward. A legislative committee has held a hearing. More than thirty lawmakers have called for the corrections director to resign.

And the women are still in there.

The Watch · Campaign 01 1:52 · narrated

Narration is third person and the pictures are library footage, labelled on screen — nothing in this video was filmed at Women's Huron Valley, and no one in it is anyone named on this page. Every claim spoken traces to the sources listed below.

Say their names

  • Jennifer Jean Wallace, 54. Died November 2025 of sepsis from an infection. Her family says a tooth infection went untreated despite repeated requests, and that it reached her heart.
  • Khaira Howard, 28. Died May 13, 2026, days before her scheduled release. Her mother says she called the prison repeatedly asking for a wellness check. Her mother also says Khaira had been made to clean mold in retaliation for women speaking out. Family account
  • Rebecca Fackler, 57. Died May 17, 2026.
  • Ashley Hoath, 36. Died June 6, 2026.
  • Dalephenia Jones, 62. Died July 2, 2026, after a cardiac event in June.

Four of those deaths fell within about eight weeks of each other, in one facility.

Still inside

Krystal Clark

Krystal Clark has been raising the alarm about mold at Huron Valley since 2016. In July 2023 she tested positive for multiple species of black mold. At the February 2026 oversight hearing, a state representative told the committee that Clark has visible mold growing in her ears, along with facial droop and severe swelling. Her advocates have demanded an independent medical review and emergency medical release, writing that she was sentenced to prison and not to progressive respiratory failure.

She is alive. That is the whole reason this page exists now instead of later.

The record

How it got here

  1. 2016 — Krystal Clark begins reporting mold at the facility.
  2. July 2023 — Clark tests positive for multiple species of black mold.
  3. 2025 — Incarcerated women sue the state over mold conditions.
  4. June 2025 — A federal judge allows the mold case into discovery, quoting allegations that the prison is infested and that mold drips from ceilings and falls from air vents.
  5. November 2025 — Jennifer Wallace dies of sepsis.
  6. February 24, 2026 — The Michigan House Oversight Committee hears testimony on mold, medical neglect, and retaliation. Lawmakers cross party lines to demand answers. A warden is described as telling a legislator the spots were paint on grout, and offering to eat it to prove it wasn't toxic.
  7. May–July 2026 — Four more women die in custody.
  8. June 12, 2026 — The corrections department launches a transparency site and releases a third-party assessment concluding airborne fungal levels are within a normal range, while acknowledging localized mold on surface vents in cells, showers, and food service. Advocates dispute the finding and demand the raw data, lab reports, and species identification.
  9. Now — More than thirty state and federal lawmakers have called for the corrections director's resignation. A congresswoman has sought answers. The women are still inside.

Every line above traces to court filings, a public legislative hearing, agency statements, or published reporting. Allegations are labeled as allegations. We are not asking anyone to take our word for it.

What we are asking for

Four things

  1. Release the raw environmental data — every lab report, spore count, photograph, and species identification. Not a summary. The data.
  2. An independent medical review of every woman reporting mold-related illness, by physicians who do not work for the department.
  3. Emergency medical release consideration for women whose conditions are deteriorating, starting with Krystal Clark.
  4. A public accounting of every death in custody at this facility since 2025 — cause, timeline, and what care was requested and when.

Do something in the next ten minutes

Where to put the pressure

Ask for the same four things every time, in the same words. A hundred calls saying one thing beats a thousand saying nine.

  1. Call the Michigan governor's office. Ask for the raw environmental data and an independent medical review at Women's Huron Valley.
    Constituent Services 517-335-7858 · michigan.gov/whitmer/contact
  2. Call your own state representative and senator. Ask them to join the call for release of the raw data. Yours carries more weight than anyone else's — a legislator counts calls from their own district and nowhere else.
    Find them: legislature.mi.gov · house.mi.gov/AllRepresentatives · senate.michigan.gov
  3. Contact the House Oversight Committee and ask for a follow-up hearing, now that four more women have died since the February hearing.
    house.mi.gov/Committee/HOVER · Clerk's Office 517-373-0135 · Senate Oversight: senate.michigan.gov
  4. Contact Disability Rights Michigan, the state's federally authorized protection and advocacy organization. It has the legal standing to go inside and investigate, which almost nobody else on this list has.
    Intake 517-487-1755 · toll-free 800-288-5923 · drmich.org/contact
    Advocate intake hours: Mon, Tue, Thu 9–4 · Fri 9–12 · no intake Wednesday. Calling inside those hours reaches a person instead of a machine.
  5. File with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division — the Special Litigation Section, which investigates patterns of unconstitutional conditions in state prisons and jails under CRIPA.
    Report: civilrights.justice.gov/report · 202-514-6255 · toll-free 877-218-5228
    It seeks facility-wide reform, not a remedy for one person, and it receives far more reports than it can act on. File it anyway — and file with the state offices above too, because those move faster.
  6. If you have first-hand knowledge — you were held there, you worked there, your person is there now — file it with The Watch. Read the safety warnings first.

Every number and link above was checked against the office's own page on 24 July 2026. If one has moved, the office's website is the authority, not this page — tell us and we will fix it.

The plan

How we intend to do this

Five phases. The first three are Huron Valley. The last two are why this campaign has a number on it.

  1. Build the record. Collect first-hand accounts through The Watch from families, released women, and staff — dated, categorized, and labeled as allegations. One letter is dismissible. Two hundred, indexed to one facility, is not.
  2. Force the data out. Push the four asks through every channel at once: constituent calls, the oversight committee, the protection and advocacy organization, DOJ Civil Rights, and press. The state has published a summary. We want the lab reports underneath it.
  3. Put people in the room. Street Team turns out for the next oversight hearing and for the families outside the facility. Disciplined, on time, in shirts, saying the same four things.
  4. Write the standard. A plain-language minimum habitability standard for places of confinement — air, water, temperature, sanitation, medical response, public raw data, and deaths in custody — with independent inspection and automatic consequences behind it. The draft is written. Read it →
  5. Take it state by state. Huron Valley is Campaign 01 because there will be a Campaign 02. Same method, same standard, next facility.

Angela Stanton King

The voice, the rooms, and the credibility of someone who was inside and came back for the people still there.

Born Between 2 Generals

The tools, the record-keeping, and the street team that shows up and does it professionally.

America's Future

The eight decades of institutional weight, and the legal and legislative reach to turn a standard into a bill.

This plan is a working draft, not a signed memorandum. Roles get confirmed by each organization before anyone is held to them.

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A note on what this page is. Everything here is drawn from federal court filings, a public legislative hearing, corrections department statements, and published news reporting. Where something is a family's account or an advocate's claim rather than an established fact, it says so. We want this record to survive contact with people who would like it to go away.