My parents' neighbor is a prison guard. He seems nice enough.
I was fascinated by the prisoners' "you aren't paid enough to cause this kind of trouble" lines. I wonder how well that works, generally, and if it works better in these privately-staffed prisons.
A friend of mine spent six(?) months as a jail guard while he was training to be a police officer of some sort. The theory was that it's best to expose recruits to the criminal element under somewhat controlled conditions, rather than on the streets.
I thought that the article was well written and compelling. It's heavy on the set-up (the hiring and incomplete training), but there's plenty of working as a guard.
Really, it's one of the most impressive articles I've ever read.
There was an excellent book called Newjack written in 2001 by Ted Conover. He asked the authorities whether he could embed in Sing Sing, and when they said no he enlisted as a CO and worked there for a year.
His public prison in 2000 was somewhat different, perhaps generally more benign, than this guy's private prison in 2014. The policy recommendation I remember from the end of Conover's book was to expand educational programs and give both inmates and CO's access to them. I know Bard College, near Sing Sing, is now very active in prison education.
Newjack is great! Everything about prisons is so horrible as to be hard to think about, which is why most people don't.
He's also one of the three US hikers who were imprisoned for two years in Iran.
He's also one of the three US hikers who were imprisoned for two years in Iran.
5: I heard him interviewed. That was the first thing I thought of.
I'VE GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER
A friend of mine spent six(?) months as a jail guard while he was training to be a police officer of some sort.
Perhaps a county deputy? County level is where you typically see that as they are running the jail as well as having guys on the road.