Christa Pike Taken to ER After Returning to Prison, Fears Infection from Cleaning ‘Roach-Infested Shower’
Christa PikeCredit: Dipti Vaidya-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Christa Pike writes in a personal declaration that she has returned to the emergency room once since being placed back in prison
She also says that she fears possible infection from having to clean her “roach-infested shower”
Her legal team has filed an emergency motion saying that Pike has been kept in isolation in the prison infirmary ever since being discharged on Oct. 9
Christa Pike is struggling to adjust to life in prison ever since being discharged from a Nashville hospital on Oct. 9.
Her greatest concern is for her health and well-being, she writes in a personal declaration filed with an emergency motion that is seeking to have her reintegrated with other members of the prison population, a copy of which was obtained by PEOPLE.
Pike writes that she has already “returned to the hospital emergency room once” in her declaration, “but was not readmitted for inpatient care.”
She also says that she is being forced to carry out tasks that put her at a “high risk of infection and further injury,” such as having to clean her “roach-infested shower.”
Christa Pike in 2008Credit: J. Miles Cary-USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Pike writes in her declaration that while she does want to rejoin the prison population, she cannot return to the pod she was previously housed in prior to her botched execution.
“This pod houses inmates with significant histories of assaults and disciplinary problems. In my two years living in this pod after entering into the settlement, I witnessed multiple assaults by close custody inmates of other inmates and guards, multiple individuals who were undergoing acute psychological breakdowns, and significant danger,” Pike explains.
Pike then goes on to say that given her “current physical condition,” it would be dangerous to house her in that pod.
“I could not defend myself or get away if another inmate attacked me,” Pike writes. “I am afraid that I will be seriously hurt if I am moved to that pod while I am this weak.”
Instead, Pike says she would just like to be part of “group meals, group classes, lobby time, group religious services, work assignments, or shared recreation.”
As it stands, she spends all of her time alone in the infirmary save for meetings she has with her legal team.
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The judge in the case has given the defendants until Nov. 4 to respond to Pike’s motion.
Pike’s legal team then has a deadline of Nov. 6 to reply to that filing.
“The motion was filed on an emergency basis because each day of continued isolation causes further harm to Ms. Pike. It asks the court to order the State to end her isolation and restore the protections in the agreement as far as her medical needs and safety allow,” Pike’s legal team previously said in a statement to PEOPLE.
They also said that they “continue to hope for a cooperative resolution that serves Ms. Pike’s health and well-being.”
Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. Pike, then 18, and her boyfriend at the time tortured the young woman before stabbing her with a box cutter.
No decision has been made as to what will happen to her now, but Gov. Bill Lee has placed a moratorium on all executions in the state for a year after Pike’s botched lethal injection.
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