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I work in a prison, and this seemed like the place for my kind of people. By which, I mean to say, we are on the list of totally badass professions. That said, we see some weird and sometimes disturbing poo poo. I, in particular, specialize in working with sex offenders, and it really fucks with my head sometimes. It's good work, important work, and meaningful work, but it's hard as hell. And I think anyone who's spent any time on this side of prison can relate. So, let's talk. Let's get real. Let's say all the things we can't say in front of our co-workers. Because everyone has those moments. Those moments that you know you can't say, but you also know that everyone else has experienced. The ones that are creepy or shocking or just plain weird, or you wish you could kill a guy just to make the world a better place, but your integrity won't let you, or you wish you could just help a guy who doesn't deserve what he got, but there's some part of you that can't resist helping, or whatever. It's a rough loving place to be. I want to talk about my job, but my co workers are dicks and don't get it, and I really need people who are real. However, if you have spend time behind bars: I do want to hear your perspective, and talk candidly about that and even hear your complaints, but here is not the place. You are welcome to PM me, but this forum is for people who work within the system. If you want to start a post somewhere else about your side of things, I will follow it and contribute my perspective if I want,, but do it in the right place, and let me know.
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I'm on this committee that's informally called the Porn Committee. Inmates can't have porn in my state, so whenever something "questionable" comes through the mailroom, they send it to us, and we decide if it actually meets the criteria for being porn. So, basically, I know who in our facility has hot girlfriends and who has ugly ones (most of them), and who has crazy fetishes, and Jesus Christ, some of these guys are into some loving hilarious poo poo. poo poo like, guys in sombreros loving donkeys, and fat chicks stuffing their faces with hot dogs, and garden gnomes with dicks jacking off. And then I go back out into the facility, and I know who's the weirdos, and that I could call them out at any time if i wanted to gently caress with them. I find it quite humorous.
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Sep 14, 2016 17:37
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It actually wouldn't be hard to smuggle drugs or cell phones or whatever in, but it's really dangerous to be that person. For one, if an inmate gets busted, they're not likely to want to protect you, so they'd likely turn you over to save their own rear end. Also, it makes you a target. I hear there's a lot of money in it, but it's also like painting a giant bullseye on yourself in regards to the offenders. I find that my job is a lot easier if I just go with the flow and don't make friends or enemies of the offenders.
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Sep 18, 2016 20:53
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What I'm really curious about is, what's the worst thing you've seen while working in corrections? I saw a guy one time, he flattened a straw, stuck it up into his eyelid, and used it to pry his eyeball out of its socket, and then, he just stood there, staring at his reflection in the window, like no big deal, while he twisted the straw around his optical nerve. It was pretty crazy how he was just completely calm the whole time. No facial expressions, no squinting or flinching at the pain. Nothing. As if he was doing something as mundane as brushing his teeth. I've seen lots of other crazy stuff, but that's the one that gave me pause.
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Sep 18, 2016 20:59
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I bitch a lot about the parts of my job that I hate, I make fun of the guys who act like morons. Still, I take my job seriously. I work with a mixture of people, some of whom have done really awful things like raping their children, and others who are otherwise good people who did something stupid, and would actually be living a decent life if not for the failings in the justice system, like a guy who was 25 and developmentally disabled, and genuinely believed the 14 year old who he had sex with was an adult. For all the garbage I say, I actually take my job seriously. I'm here to vent, because some of this poo poo fucks with my head, but it's not because I don't respect the individuals and human beings that I work with. For the ones who are actually decent people, I figure that if I can be a good role model and be supportive and encouraging to them, that has the potential to inspire these guys to want to succeed when they leave. For the ones that are terrible people, they still have basic human rights and feelings, and while they may deserve to be punished, that's not my place, and they still deserve basic human rights and respect. Prison is the punishment. Not me. On the other hand, I also don't feel that it's my place to judge the people who work here and don't share that philosophy. Everyone has reasons for doing what they do, whether that is loving kids or smuggling drugs into prison, and I find the world is a more tolerable place if I meet people where they're at, rather than where I think they should be. So, really, I'm looking for other people who work in corrections and have had hurtful, stressful experiences, and keep doing the work anyways, for whatever reason. Because I want people to relate to. I'm not here to glorify incompetence or hatred. And I'm not without ambivalence about the individuals under my watch.
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