| The room that inmates are generally brought in and strip searched should also be imbarrassing too! Every body cavity is searched too! My friend, who is one of the head guards at the local jail showed me some brass knuckled they got out of the female body cavity, if you know what I mean as the female inmate had planned on beating up another inmate. She was arrested on purpose for that reason.
When I dealt with the inmates, I had to set boundaries and say NO a lot. Most of them spent their time conning all the staff. The guards are used to it and know what many are capable of. But, I am not, so I would just tell them to get it okayed with Phil, the head guy. I knew that they were asking for a privilege they weren't supposed to have when they didn't want to ask him. lol
I know that as a person the staff knew and I was not there to visit an inmate, but for professional reasons, it was still difficult getting in and out.
I really get tired of inmates crying for their rights to have certain haircuts, certain food, and so on. Well, the only right they have is to be feed, clothed, be protected from other inmates, and given medical attention. If they want to wear special shoes, have special hair cuts, then they shouldn't break the law!
Happy, I agree with you about the aggressiveness of many guards. There has been much research done about it too. You can look on the Internet about it. It was called the Standford prison experiment. The professor was named Zimbardo. The experiment was done at the university during the summer. Some college subjects were inmates and the others were guards. It showed that the behavior changed and it was filmed. It is now used to show what NOT to do and what is not ethical in experiments. But it was interesting how power happy the "guards" became and the subjects who were acting as inmates changed too. Many were sent to mental hospitals because they were having break-downs from how they were treated. But, keep in mind, this was done way before it became the rule for the ethical treatment of medical and psychological subjects as well as the ethical treatment of inmates.
It is easy to judge the guards when you don't have to walk a mile in their shoes. But, truthfully, I wouldn't want to do what they do 40 plus hours a day.
Happy, some people are good at their job. My grandfather was a cop and he was respected by all. But, some in the cj field are so power happy. I guess there are good and bad in every profession.
Well, back to my race. |