RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
July 23, 2015 at 4:32 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2015 at 5:16 pm by InsomniacMike486.)
(July 23, 2015 at 5:36 am)ignoramus Wrote: Hi, by the way and welcome to the forum ....
From an Aussie who doesn't know a lot about your field, my first question would be: are they privatized?
Do "tenants" have the right to religious prayer time?
There are certainly privatized jails and prisons (which are just terrible places and businesses). The one I work at is run by a county government (which isn't much better). The county has more of a motivation to attempt rehabilitation methods on inmates so they won't be returning for us to have to waste money housing, feeding, giving medical care, paying officers to watch them, etc. Private prisons have a motivation to lobby for laws and practices to keep people in the correctional system for much longer periods of time so they can suckle on the fat teat of the American Government. Private prisons are destroying humanity.
All inmates have the right to religious freedom and are given time and materials deemed needed for the practice of said religion (bible, quran, torah, prayer mats, etc.) There are church programs available to those inmates who prove themselves to not be violent and unpredictable. We even have a ramadan program for muslim inmates where we feed them after a certain time of night and set up a feast for them at the end of it for jumma.
(July 23, 2015 at 6:10 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: Are cops really incentivized to arrest more people?
That depends on the mentality of the department. Personally I have never seen a cop talk about any incentive programs (like giving out more tickets for a bonus or anything). Some departments have a mentality like "I arrested ten people this week, my cop dick is bigger than your cop dick." That does exist in the minds of the ones I'd rather not be cops.
If at any time a cops feels like your the one being an asshole, they are more likely to screw you with the long dick of the law and still be considered justified. That's just the amount of authority they are given. Corrections officers are a bit different (not by much though) because we have to have a continued contact with the same people on a daily basis. We have more incentive than cops to do build a better rapport with them and treat them with a consistent level of decency regardless of how crazy they act.
(July 23, 2015 at 1:27 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Welcome aboard.
In your opinion to what extent did the female officer assist the two in NY escape?
Based on your experience how often to officer/inmate interactions cross the line?
That is an awesome question. First of all to clarify, that woman was not an officer. She was an employee paid to run a work program. Different job descriptions, but same level of access for many things for all intents and purposes.
What she did was help provide materials the inmates used to escape, which is basically just as bad as busting them out herself. I don't want to say anything to knock women in the workplace (that workplace being law enforcement) but typically speaking the inmates will go after the female officers when they want somebody to mule in stuff for them. They look for the ones who aren't as pretty or don't carry themselves as confidently. That woman was older and her marriage was on the rocks. The inmate picked up on that and used that against her to get her to do his bidding.
An inmate will use a male officer but usually that is more through blackmail. It starts off with something small "Hey CO! share some of that gum with me." then it goes to "Can i bum a smoke off ya? I'll give you five bucks for it." After that, they have you, if you don't do what they want, when they want, they will turn you in just for the fun of it. Then there goes your job.
This happens every day by the way, especially in poorly funded facilities. The county job I work now (and hopefully will be quitting for a better job soon) starts off new officers with $11.33/hr. Lines are crossed all the time solely based on that.
(July 23, 2015 at 1:48 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Is prison rape really all that common?
We don't know, because most people do not report being raped. We had a guy we knew was raped but wouldn't talk about it because he was way too scared of the inmate who threatened to find him or his family if he talked.
We had another one who almost died bleeding out his rectum from two weeks of being raped by pretty much every guy in the module (it was a mistake to put just one white kid in a module of black gang bangers). We found him bloody and passed out in his bunk during a routine check and rushed him to the ER. He still wouldn't talk about it out of the fear and shame.
(July 23, 2015 at 2:08 pm)KUSA Wrote: Do the newbie inmates have to toss the Alfa inmates salad?
Depends on who you know and who you affiliate yourself with. Typically we house inmates of similar jail and prison experience together so an "Alpha" doesn't really arise in an area too often.
I'm not going to tell you that it never happens, but we try to arrange things so they don't get that way.
