i have picked up on some terms as i have been working my way threw each and every thread and response in all 19 pages of this forum. i am very new to corrections, in fact i never even gave it consideration in all of my 20 yrs as a nurse. i have interviewed at our local county jail, and have interviews for our local fl state prison for women and also our local state prison for men (across the road from the female prison).
i have seen words like:
the hole (maximum security???) is that right?
bullpen- what does this refer to?
drunk tank- sounds self explanitory i suppose
disp.- what is that?
i read that "incident reports" (i think) were referred to as 1033, any other numbers that are universal in the practice of corrections? can anyone clarify this? what does your compound call an incident report or a varience?
how many have been propositioned or have seen the male masterbating?
i am not afraid to venture into corrections and would feel very safe with the c/o's present.
so tell me some new terms or words that are specific to correctional nursing and their meaning, so i can build my vocabulary and also know what is been said in orientation, as to not appear stupid.
thanks in advance for your help. this is a very important matter to me, because i want to be 100 percent successful and at least know what my coworkers are talking about, or what it means without asking to many newbie q's and appearing stupid.
The bullpen is the large cell where inmates wait to either go to court (in jail setting) or to see a doctor in the prisons. In NY the plexiglass room the COs sit in is called the bubble.
I'd also like to welcome you to corrections. I think you will find it a very different type of nursing.
How about some of the more common ones like:
Shank: a prison made knife
Pruno: prison made alcohol
Cadillacing: a mode of passing from one cell to another
Green: a new comer to corrections
PCer: a protective custody inmate usually associated with a child molester
PCing up: an inmate going into protective custody
Cell Warior: someone who will talk smak behind the door but when confronted will back down
HRP: high risk potential
STG: security threat groups
Food Slot or Food Flap: same as a WICKET
Tier or Block: a housing unit
Train: transporting inmates from one prison to another via van
Kite: a request form inmates use to request services
I know that there are many more but just can't think of anymore right now. Anyhow I hope you enjoy your choice in corrections and agree with nancykday that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.
Think you mistaken a kite for something else. A kite is what inmates use to pass anything from one cell to another. You see this often in the "hole" or ADSEG Unit or in other GP block during lockdown. Inmates use this to pass on almost anything from as simple a soap, food even drugs. Yes.. drugs. Kites though illegal... C/Os just tend to look the other way if they see those flying around.
Specializes in DIALYSIS, ICU/CCU, ONCOLOGY, CORRECTIONS.
Think you mistaken a kite for something else. A kite is what inmates use to pass anything from one cell to another. You see this often in the "hole" or ADSEG Unit or in other GP block during lockdown. Inmates use this to pass on almost anything from as simple a soap, food even drugs. Yes.. drugs. Kites though illegal... C/Os just tend to look the other way if they see those flying around.
no, kite can mean a request to staff or a sick call request but i think this is a ny doc term maybe, what you call kite in ca, it is called "fishing" in Pa.
I think different areas have different terms. I found this online
AD SEGADMINISTRATIVE SEGREGATIONBEEFA CRIME BULLET1 YEAR PERIOD OF TIMEC/OCORRECTIONAL OFFICERCHRONOINSTITUTIONAL WRITE UP115SERIOUS CHRONO128LESS SERIOUS CHRONODORMHOUSING UNITG.P.GENERAL PRISON POPULATIONGATED OUTRELEASED FROM PRISONINKTATTOOISSUEYOUR ORIGINAL CRIMEKITENOTE OR LETTERP.C.PROTECTIVE CUSTODYP.O.PAROLE OFFICERPROGRAMHOW A PRISONER DOES HIS TIMEPRUNOILLEGAL HOME MADE PRISON ALCOHOLROLLED UPARRESTEDSHUSECURITY HOUSING UNITSHANKPRISON MADE KNIFESLEEVEDARMS COVERED WITH TATTOOSSTAFFCUSTODY PERSONNELTACSTATTOOSTATSTATTOOSYOLKEDMUSCULARTIERLEVELS OR STORIES IN A HOUSING UNITTIPPED UPGANG AFFILIATEDTOPPED OUTOFF PAROLEYARDOUTDOOR RECREATION AREA
Specializes in ER, PACU, CORRECTIONAL HEALTH, FLIGHT.
the hole-usually refers to ad seg (solitary confinement)
bullpen-possibly a term used in some states for "tanks"
drunk tank-where people who are arrested and under the influence first go, in a county jail.
disp-disposition? or maybe disciplinary?
incident reports? they were called just that, or "occurrence reports", just like in a regular hospital. but i also had to fill out "use of force forms" for post-altercation physicals i would do (mandated after any use of force, whether there was an obvious injury or not, and whether the offender had physical complaints or not)
been propositioned? a hundred times
seen males masturbating? literally 20-30 times a day on a daily basis, sometimes in one high risk dorm that i had to walk thru to deliver meds and pick up sick call at, there would customarily be a dozen or more openly "jacking" in front of me, as i stood there dispensing meds to those who had pill call. you get immune to it. i never would actually "look", but i, like the inmates, developed peripheral vision, eyes behind the back of my head, dumbo ears and xray vision.
all i could think about when i saw them "jacking" behind the cage, was how much they looked like monkeys in a zoo. it was hard to keep from laughing, but i couldnt laugh because then their actions prompted a "reaction"...though once in a while, i just couldnt help but burst out in laughter-hey i am only human.
i have picked up on some terms as i have been working my way threw each and every thread and response in all 19 pages of this forum. i am very new to corrections, in fact i never even gave it consideration in all of my 20 yrs as a nurse. i have interviewed at our local county jail, and have interviews for our local fl state prison for women and also our local state prison for men (across the road from the female prison).
i have seen words like:
the hole (maximum security???) is that right?
bullpen- what does this refer to?
drunk tank- sounds self explanitory i suppose
disp.- what is that?
i read that "incident reports" (i think) were referred to as 1033, any other numbers that are universal in the practice of corrections? can anyone clarify this? what does your compound call an incident report or a varience?
how many have been propositioned or have seen the male masterbating?
i am not afraid to venture into corrections and would feel very safe with the c/o's present.
so tell me some new terms or words that are specific to correctional nursing and their meaning, so i can build my vocabulary and also know what is been said in orientation, as to not appear stupid.
thanks in advance for your help. this is a very important matter to me, because i want to be 100 percent successful and at least know what my coworkers are talking about, or what it means without asking to many newbie q's and appearing stupid.
Specializes in ER, PACU, CORRECTIONAL HEALTH, FLIGHT.
i want to add to my last post, alot of prison terms are GEOGRAPHICAL. i heard different terms in Georgia, than i had here in Texas, in prisons. when i watch AMERICAN JAIL or LOCKUP, i hear terms, sometimes, that are not familiar to me, though i can figure out what they mean, based on the context of what is happening
i want to add to my last post, alot of prison terms are GEOGRAPHICAL. i heard different terms in Georgia, than i had here in Texas, in prisons. when i watch AMERICAN JAIL or LOCKUP, i hear terms, sometimes, that are not familiar to me, though i can figure out what they mean, based on the context of what is happening
Hey one of my friends was featured on American Jail (seriously) when they do Orient Road Jail in Tampa Florida....there she is.
Anyways that is a good way to learn some new terms is to watch some of those shows since the guards/jail deputies tend to translate what they are talking about.
If I was in correctional nursing I would also be aware of other terms like gang terminology especially MS-13 and the Latin Kings if I lived in certain areas. They have quickly spread through the system in the Southern United States. MS-13 uses hand signals called "stacking" it is so complex there are people who actually thought they were deaf people using ASL when they in fact they could hear quite well and were communicating some plan to each other.
The good thing is nurses are not usually seen as the enemy in detention facilities but it is wise to be wary of what they are coding to each other outside of the normal prison slang so nurse gets caught up in the mix in case the inmates flip out on the guards or something.
Monica RN,BSN
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throwing this back out there because it is a fun thread :balloons: