>rent a car bulgaria.. had to work my 3rd double this week but didn’t mind this one.
About 9am we got a radio call for Signal 10 (Fight at our facility) and officers needing assistance. Was happy to find out when we got there it was not officer involved, however, 5 inmates were attacking another (2 with weapons) on the yard. There are 24 inmates on the yard at the time and the victim pin himself in the corner and balled up to protect himself (which saved his life). However.. he was up against the door as well and 2 of the attackers were holding the door trying to keep us out. Once we had about 8-9 people we racked the door and rushed the yard. 5-6 more officers showedup just as we cracked the door.
Man o’ man.. some people have talents. Talents that, in my opinion, they should never know they had.
It was a humid overcast Monday and we were running out yard. The unit we were running is a max general pop run so we have to remove them one cell at a time and lock them into the cages on the yard individually. Needless to say, It takes a long time. We are almost finished putting them out when the sky opens and it starts to pour, Hard! The last 5 cells decide they aren’t going out. We check with the tower officers to see if there is lightning. There is none so we continue on down to bring in the other yard.
As we head downstairs a call on the radio comes that there is a fight on the yard down the hill in another one of the General Pop yards. We leave a control room officer and a few cadets (it was around 9:00 count so someone needed to stay and count) behind and head down to respond.
The tower officer called in the fight and when enough of us arrived (12-13) we entered the yard. We separated the two fighting and restrained them. After a bit of talking, the inmates were escorted to medical to check for injuries.
Here is where the talent comes in. One of these inmates as “keistering.” That is what we call it when they have contraband stuff in their backside. The X-ray showed this guy had a 6″-8″ shank in his rear end! Answer me this.. how the hell do you roll around and fight with a pointy 8″ piece of steel up your butt?
Man, that’s talent!
Welp.. I have missed work for the last few days with a bad eye. I have Iritis and it ain’t no fun. It feels as though someone is stabbing a pencil in your eye. I do have a cool eyepatch though.. makes me look like a pirate, and pirates are cool.
In my absence it seems there was a stabbing on the unit I work. I believe the guy stabbed was close to getting out. Don’t know a lot of the details but he was MediFlighted to the hospital so that isn’t a good sign. As far as inmates goes, he was respectful and did what he was told (see: he was getting out soon). The summer heat and lack of air conditioning is causing some issues. Last week there was a fight on a unit that caused us to respond in force. While we all responded to the first fight, a second, bigger fight broke out. Was a busy day.
Doctor says I can go back to work soon.. Probably Thursday. Light in my eye hurts and can cause damage or even blindness so no taking chances for me.
Graduation! The academy is now behind me! I am not going to lie, it was a long, boring 6 weeks. However, I met some friends, my new brothers and sisters, that will be with me for a lifetime. I was so happy that I got to meet them.
On that note, It is now official. I am a Corrections Officer. On top of that, it took 1 hour and 23 minutes to be involved in my first use of force as a full CO.
Inmate Whineypants, we’ll call him, decided he didn’t’ want a cell mate after one was assigned to him. After the yard we told him to locked down and go to his house. He refused.. got REALLY lippy then lunged at an officer. He was promptly retrained and protected to the ground and cuffed.
This brought on my first incident report as well. Those are a treat and everyone should get to write them (I know, I know.. sarcasm is lost on the internet).
Just wanted to give you an update on inmate Jones from my previous post on Prison Slang. My guess was correct. He owed someone some cash.. A LOT of cash. Moving him to a PC unit wasn’t enough for him. He must have been really afraid to think someone was going to get him in the PC unit. He decided to not just throw urine on the floor, but this time he threw it on a female staff member.
Needless to say.. that is a NO NO. He got a LONG walk to segregation. He was very clumsy on the way down as he fell a few times and had some bumps and bruises when he arrived.
What some people will do to get out of a debt.
