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Ask a Corrections Officer
#21
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 4:29 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: Why would you want to be a prison guard?

Why would I? Well I took the job because the field I wanted to get involved in (not a jailors job) required some kind of related experience first. I have a college degree but no real world experience. Many people find Corrections as a great way to build that experience to put on an application to be a Cop, Parole Officer, Counselor, or like I'm trying to get a new job as a "Corrections Advisor" which supervises people on probation in a facility that helps them find jobs and complete their treatment programs to try to keep them off the streets but still involved with the community and out of prison.

Other people take the job because they have friends and family on the inside as inmates and they are helping out by sneaking them things and selling it. It's a sad reality, but I've seen it happen time and time again.
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#22
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
Lets move on to some non prison chat. What do you think will be your next career path?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#23
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 4:32 pm)InsomniacMike486 Wrote: ...
(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.
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DNA testing could be done without the victim telling anyone anything.  Why is that not done?

Also, wouldn't having cameras everywhere be a good idea, so that these kinds of things could be stopped as soon as they start?

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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#24
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 5:55 pm)InsomniacMike486 Wrote: actually yes. We had a schizo inmate cut chucks of his scalp off and put it in his mouth before we took the razor away from him and got him stitched up. Mental healthcare in jail is not the best...It needs reform.

Holy shit, you've seen everything.
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#25
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Lets move on to some non prison chat. What do you think will be your next career path?

For non-prison chat:

How do you like the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art?

If you like art, you are pretty lucky having such a good art gallery nearby. The only ones in the country that I have visited that I think are better overall are the Met in NY and the National Gallery in DC. But the Nelson has a better collection of Chinese art than either of those, so if one's specific interests lie in that direction, then you are really in luck. It is a vastly better art gallery than one would expect in a "cow town."

Good restaurants are available in KC, too.

Cost of living is low relative to other large cities.

The weather sucks. Way too hot and humid in the summer, and nasty, icy winters.

Need a car to get around town.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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#26
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 6:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well-reasoned answer.  You're being wasted where you are.  You should be running a prison system.

They don't let 26 year olds who piss off administrators who run their shift ineffectively be in charge of much.
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#27
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Lets move on to some non prison chat. What do you think will be your next career path?

For non-prison chat:

How do you like the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art?  

If you like art, you are pretty lucky having such a good art gallery nearby.  The only ones in the country that I have visited that I think are better overall are the Met in NY and the National Gallery in DC.  But the Nelson has a better collection of Chinese art than either of those, so if one's specific interests lie in that direction, then you are really in luck.  It is a vastly better art gallery than one would expect in a "cow town."

Good restaurants are available in KC, too.

Cost of living is low relative to other large cities.

The weather sucks.  Way too hot and humid in the summer, and nasty, icy winters.

Need a car to get around town.
OK, I get it, correction officer thread. The OP indicated that this was a step onto the next career. Just wondered what that was?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#28
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 6:21 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Lets move on to some non prison chat. What do you think will be your next career path?

For non-prison chat:

How do you like the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art?  

If you like art, you are pretty lucky having such a good art gallery nearby.  The only ones in the country that I have visited that I think are better overall are the Met in NY and the National Gallery in DC.  But the Nelson has a better collection of Chinese art than either of those, so if one's specific interests lie in that direction, then you are really in luck.  It is a vastly better art gallery than one would expect in a "cow town."

Good restaurants are available in KC, too.

Cost of living is low relative to other large cities.

The weather sucks.  Way too hot and humid in the summer, and nasty, icy winters.

Need a car to get around town.

Visiting that art gallery has been on my "To-Do" list for a couple years now, but I'm overworked with being forced to work a 62 hour work week because we are frequently understaffed. You're right though. I do like the eateries.

(July 23, 2015 at 6:33 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 4:32 pm)InsomniacMike486 Wrote: ...

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.
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DNA testing could be done without the victim telling anyone anything.  Why is that not done?

Also, wouldn't having cameras everywhere be a good idea, so that these kinds of things could be stopped as soon as they start?

Without a complaining victim, the act is seen as "consensual." It sickens me to say that, but that is how it is handled. We do have cameras, but they aren't being watched all the time. We just pull the recording in case we think something happened and hopefully it didn't happen in a blind spot or just out of view. It all comes down to funding in preventing crap like that from happening and as I've said, we are not funded properly.
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#29
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
What do you like to do most in your spare time and did doing this job affect you in any significant way?

Are you really an insomniac?

Could you share a fond memory with us?
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#30
RE: Ask a Corrections Officer
(July 23, 2015 at 6:54 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(July 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: For non-prison chat:

How do you like the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art?  

If you like art, you are pretty lucky having such a good art gallery nearby.  The only ones in the country that I have visited that I think are better overall are the Met in NY and the National Gallery in DC.  But the Nelson has a better collection of Chinese art than either of those, so if one's specific interests lie in that direction, then you are really in luck.  It is a vastly better art gallery than one would expect in a "cow town."

Good restaurants are available in KC, too.

Cost of living is low relative to other large cities.

The weather sucks.  Way too hot and humid in the summer, and nasty, icy winters.

Need a car to get around town.
OK, I get it, correction officer thread. The OP indicated that this was a step onto the next career. Just wondered what that was?
I think I said something about the Corrections Advisor job I want to take. Its in Johnson County KS. Look up their Adult Residential Facility. I waiting to hear back on a job from them currently.

(July 23, 2015 at 7:13 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: What do you like to do most in your spare time and did doing this job affect you in any significant way?

Are you really an insomniac?

Could you share a fond memory with us?

In my spare time I'm an author for Creepypasta.com I wrote the Miss-Fortune series and I have another (better) series in the works currently. I also have a Youtube Channel InsomniacMike486 where I do Let's Plays of video games.

Yes, I have insomnia and battle depression. The depression I've had most of my life, the things I've seen and had to deal with being in a jail environment thickened my skin to daily life problems. You might curse the heavens if you have ever had to change a flat tire in the rain, i'm just glad nobody is throwing blood or feces at me.

My favorite memory is the time I had a kid swallow meth in my intake lobby before anybody could search him. It caused him to have a massive seizure and we had to group tackle him to stop his head from slamming into a wall. I had to be sent out with him in the ambulance. When the EMT cut his shirt off we saw that he had a really crappily done tattoo of the Superman Crest on his chest. When he started coming around and opened his eyes at us I went "Hey Superman. You swallow some Kyrptonite today?" We all shared a laugh. Not him though, he had to be paralyzed and hooked up to a breathing machine.
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