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WHY do your inmates have the right to ask you your first name???????? They have no rights to my personal info in the NYS prison I work in, which includes, but not limited to my first name. Is that a law there??? What other kind of info do they have the "right" to ask????????

Tell the Watch Commander and Supervisor STAT!! In our prison if we know em, they gotta go. Prevents being "conned" by those you know in green.

Just spent 4 hours reading these....Have to share. My ex husband and I had just bought our first house right before our third child was born. It was an old farmhouse that was a mile away from General Brown's (War of 1812) home during the War. It was built on the land that his soldiers camped on. When we asked about previous owners we were told that there had been "many" since it was built in 1875. No one had lived there for more than five years before selling. Thought it was odd, but no one elaborated, so we moved in. Strange things happened all the time. Lights flickering, dryer starting for no reason, toilet paper unraveling itself, kids "jolly jumper" jumping by itself, kids talking to those men who have boo boos. If I told them to stop it, they did. (the ghosts, not the kids) Night before my scheduled c-section my parents came to stay with me. The slept in the woodstove room by the stairs leading to our bedrooms. My mother asked me the next day about the soldiers. She said they looked wartorn and had marched through the wall of the woodstove room up the stairs. General Brown's soldiers coming back to camp after a battle??? I finally got the nerve to ask the farmer who lived in Gen Brown's old house why no one stayed there long before moving. He said that bad luck always happened to those who lived there. Loss of jobs, divorce, etc...After living there my ex started to become a complete jerk, lost a few jobs, started cheating, treating me very badly--physically and emotionally. One night I heard a man's voice telling me to leave--it was best. I decided it was time to leave my ex and I moved 2 weeks later. The night after I moved my stuff out of the house and unplugged all appliances in house (ex moved out one week before I did) the house caught on fire--deemed an electrical shortage--and burned to the ground. Maybe my soldiers were stopping the damage to any other families. BTW ex has returned to normal self, doing well at job, he is the man I once married. Was it the house??? I guess I'll never know.

I used to work in a troop clinic on an Army post and now I work in corrections. There is a definite sameness between the two. When someone has to be evaluated by a nurse or medic or doctor to get out of work or details and can't just "call in sick" you'll find a great deal of bs'ing. Soldiers and inmates don't have the option of deciding for themselves if they are sick enough to "stay home". With your experience you would probably do very well in a correctional setting. There are rules, chain of commands and a definite feel of "someone else is in charge of my life" (whether they volunteered for service or were volunteered by the court system.) I believe that my experience working for the Army helped me adjust to the correctional setting.

1. Three days with C.O. instructors--to go over "the way jail works and how to deal with prisoners". 3 weeks of orientation "on the floor". 2. Self defense as in physical self defense??? NO! We did have a week of intensive how not to get "conned" training. 3. During that week of "con" training we learned how we were supposed to react. I hope I never have to remember it!!!! 4. No, thank goodness.Of course inmates never "die" in prison, they die in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.

In our facility the only place to find the address/phone number of an employee is to go to the Watch Commander's office. Not a place an inmate is ever left alone. I also have my phone num. and address unlisted=just in case one of them gets out and tries to "look me up". I have never had a safer job, at least there you KNOW who the bad guy is. Always have your eyes and ears open, and NEVER let an inmate get between you and the nearest exit. If you are firm, fair and consistent you should do okay. If one of them still tries to "hit on" the nurses they get their "clock cleaned" if you know what I mean.

I couldn't have said it better. Although, in our sick call we have one officer in the building, and he stands by only if called. (Medium security facility) It may differ from state to state and the type of facility you work in. Everything else is right on the money.

when the inmates go through processing, they do a complete h/p, lab work, etc..Special diets are offered to the inmates, but most don't take it. (Not enough food, food too bland?? who knows..) The inmates do their own fingersticks and administer their own insulin at the medical clinic. It is a very highly controlled process. Needles are kept on high watch. The inmate is not allowed to leave the med admin area until the nurse assures that the needle has been placed in the sharps. What the officers know about diabetic emergencies is based on the experience and knowledge of the officers. They are not specifically trained in that area. If there is a problem the medical dept is immediately called. We have a two minute response time to any emergencies. I hope that answered your question.