Excuse me while I rant a little here. I hope you don't mind.I AM SICK AND FREAKING TIRED OF THE STATE CODDLING THESE KNUCKLEHEADS AND TREATING THEM LIKE THEY ARE JUST ERRANT CHILDREN!!! THEY ARE ADULTS AND SOME OF THE ARE PROVEN TO BE DANGEROUS SO WHY CAN'T WE TREAT THEM LIKE THE ANIMALS THEY ACT LIKE?
Okay.... That got some of it off my chest. Sometimes I just get a little fed up with the fact that these little snits have more rights that we do.
And I am really tired of "councilors" and "caseworkers" and "psychologists" who buy their sob stories and let them get away with anything with little more than a slap on the wrist.
We just got some idiot in today off of the bus. Supposed to be going to a 180 day drug treatment program. Last time he was here, about a year ago, he assaulted two of our staff (one who is a very good friend of mine) and they are referring him for prosecution for those assaults. My friend Z got kicked in the head and suffered a ruptured disc in his neck. He was in pain for months and is just now able to turn his head about 30% of the amount he used to.
This little creep isn't scheduled to get out for a few more years and if they find him guilty on these assaults he will be facing another ten to twenty years in prison. So they send him back here into a program with an open bay type living arrangement to get counseling on his drug problem. because some judge somewhere stipulated that he had to have it in order to get out early.
That is what that drug treatment program is all about. If they complete it, it looks better to the parole board and they might get an early out date.
Don't they imagine that in twenty years he will have forgotten all he may learn in this program? Why not wait fifteen more years and then send him? This punk has already proved that he's a dangerous snaphole and doesn't need to be out in the general public, let alone in a more relaxed setting like the treatment program.
Why are they putting more staff members in jeopardy?
And don't get me started about that little cockroach Shmelvin! Not long ago he racked up five staff assaults in one week. And they let him out early because he's "troubled". Every single time he gets locked up they let him back out again due to his "mental condition". Just last week they caught him and his cellie.... Well, I won't ick you out with the details, but the term for it is "Sexual Misconduct". They locked him up on Saturday. Anybody else would do at least 30 days down in the Hive. Today he was back on the hill again.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGH! THAT SNIT PISSES ME OFF! WHY THE HECK DO WE EVEN TRY TO KEEP ORDER AND DISCIPLINE IF THEY ARE JUST GOING TO CUT OUR LEGS OUT FROM UNDERNEATH US?
Sorry. Again.
Sometimes this job is really really frustrating.
I think I just need to take a chill pill and relax. Maybe drink a beer or something. I dunno.
Anyway, thanks for putting up with my little temper tantrum. Just needed to unload a bit of baggage. And I'm the only one awake here right now.
Maybe I should just go check the calendar. Friday (Yayy, Friday!) will be National Yo-Yo Day. Oh yeah. I got hundreds of yo-yo's to play with. It will also be Ball Point Pen Day and Iced Tea Day.
Sounds like a good basis for one heck of a party, eh?
All some of your guests understand is the stick and the boot. I think the feel good types forget that.
ReplyDeleteYes Revvy, what you said!
ReplyDeleteWell if you need a beer come on over. And the next time this little piece if crap assaults staff just remember your uof scale and step the force up appropriately. If he has the means , opportunity and motive and due to his past history of assaulting staff. Put it on him until he eats through a feeding tube the rest of his life. Or wears depends. Remember the old days in the hive. Use the force Luke ....use the force!
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You look suspiciously like Homer Simpson when you're ranting.
ReplyDeleteAA has gotten to be the same way too, I think. I'm not big on court-appointed things like that either. It kind of devalues the whole thing. Rehab and support groups are one thing when someone is genuinely trying to turn their life around and they are there by choice. You can't expect the same results when someone is sent there by a judge.
It's just like school. The children who act out and cause trouble get the most attention and help, while the rest are pretty much ignored...
ReplyDeleteIt's a terrible way to run anything.
I tend to be one of those softies who’s sorry for the errant children, but I take your post as the revelation of a different point of view.
ReplyDeleteI used to be a correspondent of a Florida Death Row inmate. I was sympathetic but not sorry for him, and I was pretty sure he was guilty of the murder as described in the legal records, all for a few hundred dollars. It seemed to me at the time that a subconscious part of him had willed the lengthy incarceration, for it gave him a focus in life.
All I can say is that we each have to look after our own selves, and take what comes if we go off the straight and narrow, regardless of our low IQ, poor upbringing & so forth. Society has to protect itself and you guys who have been appointed to assist in that role have to protect yourselves too.
I suspect that you are a rather kind example of the trade you are in, and that is why you choose the opportunity for an anonymous rant, instead of taking it out cruelly on the inmates.
Joe- I think it's a sad commentary on our society that we have gotten away from that sometimes.
ReplyDeleteDrew- I knew you'd be there, too.
Greenghost- The whole camp is aware of him and who he is and we all have the same attitude. If that punk sets one foot out of line he's going to find himself needing a whole box of bandaids.
Bryan- I think it's the way this light makes my skin yellow. 99% of the offenders treat it as a joke, too.
Chanel- You are so right. Gotta change society, tho. That's that hard part.
Vincent- In most cases, these guys had to misbehave several times in order to finally get sent to prison so I have very little sympathy for them. And once they get here they learn absolutely nothing from being incarcerated. Sure, when they write letters or talk on the phone they are model citizens who are being treated unjustly by the system. But when nobody from the outside is looking, they are foul mouthed and ill behaved and they think they can treat us like crap because we are the enemy. We are the bad guys here. If we could video tape their foolishness and send it home it would be a whole different story in prison.
Chanel mentioned school, and I know this is in no way as severe as what happens on your level, but what you're describing sounds a lot like the deans office at school. Send a kid out of class for acting like an imbecile, they get their time for "recovery" and then they're sent right back where they came from, where they acted like an idiot in the first place. And they don't change. So this is where is starts.
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