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<blockquote data-quote="Jabberwockey" data-source="post: 669356" data-attributes="member: 18238"><p>Sorry, was just too tired last night for coherent thought. Donna, I don't really have that core group to hang out with. There are several others with as much or more time than I have but I don't really know most of them. People tend to bounce from institution to institution for promotions. That and I'm not exactly a social butterfly. I was accused the other day of becoming anti-social. I informed her that I wasn't becoming anti-social, I was perfecting it.</p><p></p><p>Apple, its hard to say if the inmates are different or not. When I started in the early 90's I worked at a maximum security camp. Yes, there was drugs and violence, but you could earn their respect over time. The old heads tended to keep the youngsters in check. I'm at a minimum security camp now. They have to have less than six years remaining on their sentence in order to be here. I know several of the offenders here from the max security camp and they are fine, but are also limited in what they can do about the youngsters here. They now have a release date that they have to protect so are less likely to "educate" the youngsters on proper etiquette so to speak. </p><p></p><p>Even a lot of the older inmates are different here. They have never done serious time but instead have done six months here, two years there, and so on so they have never developed the old head mentality. And I've said it before but most inmates are Difficult Child's to begin with. </p><p></p><p>As far as Central Office goes Donna, I honestly don't know. I left the institution for probation and parole because of staff, not offenders. But here, staff is ok. Not best of buds with everyone but refer back to the whole anti-social thing. I think I could be happy at Central Office if they would just put me in my cubicle, leave me alone, and let me do my job. Especially since our son started acting a fool, my tolerance for stupidity has decreased significantly. Not a good tolerance to lose when working in prison.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jabberwockey, post: 669356, member: 18238"] Sorry, was just too tired last night for coherent thought. Donna, I don't really have that core group to hang out with. There are several others with as much or more time than I have but I don't really know most of them. People tend to bounce from institution to institution for promotions. That and I'm not exactly a social butterfly. I was accused the other day of becoming anti-social. I informed her that I wasn't becoming anti-social, I was perfecting it. Apple, its hard to say if the inmates are different or not. When I started in the early 90's I worked at a maximum security camp. Yes, there was drugs and violence, but you could earn their respect over time. The old heads tended to keep the youngsters in check. I'm at a minimum security camp now. They have to have less than six years remaining on their sentence in order to be here. I know several of the offenders here from the max security camp and they are fine, but are also limited in what they can do about the youngsters here. They now have a release date that they have to protect so are less likely to "educate" the youngsters on proper etiquette so to speak. Even a lot of the older inmates are different here. They have never done serious time but instead have done six months here, two years there, and so on so they have never developed the old head mentality. And I've said it before but most inmates are Difficult Child's to begin with. As far as Central Office goes Donna, I honestly don't know. I left the institution for probation and parole because of staff, not offenders. But here, staff is ok. Not best of buds with everyone but refer back to the whole anti-social thing. I think I could be happy at Central Office if they would just put me in my cubicle, leave me alone, and let me do my job. Especially since our son started acting a fool, my tolerance for stupidity has decreased significantly. Not a good tolerance to lose when working in prison. [/QUOTE]
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