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"Jailers =/= Correctional Officers"

okay, sure thing hooksaw.

correctional officers --[distinct from]--> jailers

just as

executive assistants --[distinct from]--> secretaries


ive had a firsthand look at how the NC Dept of Corrections staffs their maximum security facilities. my 300-pound oxygen-deprived cousin's husband was a "correctional officer" too, in the mix with the inmates, breaking up fights and shit. woo hoo.

here's how it goes: two inmates fight ... the rest back off, one guard presses a button, calls for "lockdown", all the other inmates scatter to their cells. ten more guards show up with sticks and pepper spray and gear and overwhelm the the two scrapping inmates in their pajamas and flip flops.

yeah, tough stuff.

now i aint sayin it aint stressful. you do, on occasion, somewhere in the country every now and again, have a full scale inmate riot where guards and inmates can be taken hostage, perhaps beaten raped and killed.

knowing that such a thing can conceivably occur is stressful, which is also why you have the safeguards in place to prevent it from occuring.

If i had no education and no motivation other than to strut my fat ass with a group of bulls and slap around some sloppy convicts, yeah, i'd go be a correctional officer for $12.00 hour. it ain't hard to get in. they aren't very picky.

sorry if we don't treat you like a rock star or war hero.





[Edited on June 16, 2007 at 7:38 PM. Reason : ]

6/16/2007 7:34:43 PM

how the fuck do you make homemade liquor in prison?

forgive me if this is an utterly retarted question, but Ive never heard of this.

6/16/2007 7:37:40 PM

^ fruit. and socks.

6/16/2007 7:38:42 PM

^^They brew moonshine in the toilet.

I'm sure you can find a how-to online.

6/16/2007 10:56:49 PM

^^^ joe_shithead is such a fucking know-it-all asshole. Does he distinguish state troopers from county deputy sheriffs, for example? Such an analogy illustrates the main difference between correctional officers and jailers.

First, the "my cousin's husband" argument is fucking lame--it really shows that he doesn't know shit. Second, he doesn't allow for various types or correctional facilities: maximum, close, medium, minimum, and so on. Third, some facilities use the unit-management style, which is what I started in. I was in medium-custody dormitories, which means that when the shit started, I was right in the middle of it. And we didn't even have fucking radios back then--if your ass got in trouble, you blew a whistle for help.

I could go on. But, basically, the posts of joe_shithead are ill-informed ass and he should try shutting the fuck up.

PS: "Buck," as they call it in NC prisons, or "mash," as they call it in Virginia prisons, is usually made of apples, oranges, or potatoes that ferment in a container (often a five-gallon paint bucket or some type of jug) with yeast and sugar. If you do a kitchen inventory and you're missing a significant amount of yeast, somebody's making buck.

[Edited on June 17, 2007 at 7:31 PM. Reason : .]

6/17/2007 7:24:16 PM