Every morning we wake up to go to breakfast at 4:30 and last night was no different. We woke up, went to chow, and came back. When we got back, everybody’s stuff was torn up and thrown all over the place.That’s not really unusual, but this time a lot of people got their cigarettes taken by the CO even though we’re allowed to have them. Just as everybody was making their beds again, one of the COs came walking through smoking the inmates’ cigarettes. You might ask ‘Well how do you know that he was smoking theirs?’ I know because he said so.
He passed my room and went to the cell next to mine and asked him “What would you do for your cigarettes?” He replied, “What do you want me to do Sir?” So the CO made him sing the Barney theme song out loud, then made him sing the YMCA song – but instead of saying “Y..M..C..A,” he had to sing “Y Am I Gay!”
Then for the next two hours, he sat one cell over messing with that man over every little thing, so I couldn’t sleep the whole time. Then after he was finally through, he refused to turn the lights off so we could go to sleep.
These COs here just love to come to work to make you mad.
I got to be honest – he was kinda funny for the first five minutes, but he got real old, real fast.
i find it very sad that the behaviour of these correction officers is tolerated by management.
ReplyDeletealso, it sounds like the guy was bored, he needed to spice up his day a bit.
This behavior SHOULD NOT be tolerated, at ALL, period.
ReplyDeleteIt is sick, twisted and sadistic and not people that I want wearing an American Falg, while performing their 'jobs'.
They take pleasure in the power and control and inflicting pain and suffering. That is the mindset of someone you want BEHIND the bars, not running the jail...
This is troublesome. For people, on the outside, who find this funny and acceptable, shows me something else that is very wrong with this world. I'll say this again, we are talking about prisoners who will one day re-enter society. And while I don't think it should be a picnic in prison, I believe the goals of our prison system should be to spend more time on rehabilitation, getting to the root of problems which prisoners have (psych issues, drug issues, problems with authority, etc) and work to solve those issues. A person in authority should not use humiliation to get their point across (not that this guard even had a point). Why? Because when that prisoner is let out, he is likely to humiliate others. Humiliation isn't the way to teach someone respect for authority. You lead by example. I"m not sure what work prisoners are required to do in prison but they should be working 8 hours per day. It should be treated like a regular job. When you aren't doing your job well, you get demoted to a less desirable job. When you are insubordinate to your leader (in which I mean, you fail to do as told within the job description) you lose privileges (phone calls, access to reading material, etc) Or you are required to work a 10 hour days for some length of time. That's how you teach respect for authority and work ethic and prepare them for the outside world. These prisons are a waste of our taxpayer dollars in how they operate. And they put the outside world in jeopardy when they release them back into society, often, a much more broken hardened person.
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