Core Civic prison employees speak out

[@OCPAC7]

WE HAVE TO FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE THE STATE OF TENNESSEE!

[@orion3706]

I was a Correctional Officer for over 10 years in Illinois. Hell will freeze over before I work for a private prison company. I view that as legalized slavery. Holding someone against their will to make profit is legalized slavery.

[@ericlarousse1149]

The held people who weren't convicted of a crime?

[@reggieburkes4471]

​​​@@ericlarousse1149 I know right.

[@moonx3260]

@@ericlarousse1149 everyone who is in prison isn't a murderer. oh but you already knew that, didn't you shortbus?

[@sterlingpinoy]

All across core civic when I worked there we hated this prison specifically. It was viewed as a complete nightmare and none of us could be paid enough to work there. It was quite literally a prison we all viewed as “abandon all hope ye who enter here”.

[@ericlarousse1149]

You read Milton?

[@albertjackson6164]

I feel that brother I was there for two months I never felt soo broken as a officer then when I was there I was a CO for 6 years before I went there and the sort team commander there did except my sort credentials I was on sort for two years for CCA Torrance County Detention facility in Estancia NM officer A jackson baggage number 1003

[@Jennifer-nu4ft]

My cousin, inmate, was killed there while incarcerated.

[@albertjackson6164]

Amen brother I was at this facility for two months in October to December my last day was December 10/ 2018 it was the worst out of my 6 years of my Correctional profession

[@antiglobaljoel532]

I used to work at West Tennessee Detention Facility in Mason, Tn. back in 1996-97. I had an apple thrown at the back of head during count time one evening because I turned the tv off during count time when I was cross counting my partners dorm. I cussed out the whole dorm. I didn't leave the dorm to go back to my own dorm. I told my partner that I wasn't leaving- he could take my dorm. The tv stayed off, and we searched everybodys lockers. Anything that could be thrown, we took. 😂 What's up North Carolina J dorm? Hope y'all are doing well, and none of your families are in the disaster areas.

[@locoguero36]

I w As in core civic the didn’t get me urgent meds until 3 days into my 16 day sentence then did not send me home with the meds i brought when turning myself in.

[@ericm8633]

By increasing wages?? "Correctional Officer - Travel Duty This position has a pay rate of $14.88 to $20.09 (Pay based on experience)" What did they increase them from, federal minimum wage? You want people to be a correction officer, pay them jack shit, and want them to not be corrupt at the same time? Or actually give a shit? What a joke

[@jamisjamison-yh1bp]

One of their jail guards tried to shove me off my bicycle while off duty as I was biking down the road. Him and his belligerent father tried to claim they “owned the whole road”. Same dude also purposely went into the left lane and tried to brush past me in his car while I was biking down the same road minding my own business a few weeks before. I think his last name is Martinez and works at the core civic in lecanto fl. Call the hernando county sheriffs office and they did nothing but log an incident report.

[@AndyKola]

I got a class A write up for refusal to work in the kitchen. I paid $25 to a prison lawyer and the jail court dismissed my case

[@salford7328]

My brother is going through a lot there he have been jumped on and have put for to be transferred to another facility they disregard that also me and my sister have email them also call. My sister finally talk with someone in the warden they got real smart with her told her that why should he be moved off the compound that he has been locked up before so coming in there you just have to defend yourself. Therefore our brother refuse to go on compound because he fear of his life so they put him in segregation. By they put him in segregation he couldn’t get any funds from families on his book for food he just now able to get something on his book now and they took certain things off his list that he couldn’t get and certain amount of quantity. It’s sad we feel bad that our brother has to go through that.

[@injusticeanywherethreatens265]

Scary!

[@AndyKola]

I went to a TN prison in 2014 Anne got in a fight fight with a vice Lord, that almost completely hyper extended my arm to the point where the bone was gonna come out of my arm. It was black and blue from my wrist. All the way up to my shoulder. I told him I fell off my bunk, and it took a few days to even see medical, and all they gave me was ibuprofen.

[@JoshuaHendrickson-rp7tn]

Its dangresus he let that out

[@Thevicion-q8y]

I’d was an inmate at TTCC sense day one 😅 I know everything about it!😅

[@shawnwhite08sw]

Holy shit thats c.o. Lattimore. We worked together

[@mikemarshall2744]

Who was that officer that worked with him?

[@shawnwhite08sw]

@@mikemarshall2744what?

[@mikemarshall2744]

@shawnwhite08sw i guess you didn't work at the prison with him? Must of been somewhere else. I was his partner in bravo unit. When we had the staffing of course

[@starseyes2696]

Tennessee prisons and their No drug zone policy does worse for immates who need rehab , they labeled my son a drug dealer without a second thought, even though he was EMS for overdose just a weeo prior to arrest in 2017 and gave him 15 years !!!!

[@cherylswiger447]

Michael Akers

[@mafoyabaloubi5391]

The problem is because all the money goes towards the RN’s and other licensed medical staff. Monitor I pays $15.50 and up. RN pays $40 and up. Now tell me again why there’s a staffing shortage?

[@gladysjarrett6082]

There is also a medical staffing shortage as well there,… go figure

[@TheRealGoddess]

I use to work for corecivic

[@Coachpassionking]

how was it?

[@DevonteM317]

Been locked up in CCA and the employees don’t give af and worse than actual correctional officers

[@TheRealGoddess]

@@Coachpassionking there homophobic and they don’t give a shit about inmate or staff

[@TheRealGoddess]

@@DevonteM317 facts

[@elementalslap619]

@@Coachpassionking when i worked at corecivic it wasnt horrible but the hours were hell. My schedule was supposes to be 4 12 hour shifts and 2 days off, but ended up being 4 17 hour shifts. Was doing roughly 70 hours in 4 days

[@WFjjcfdde]

These prisoners are being tortured and left to die when they have a medical issue,there is no medical emergency in jail, they benefit from more prisoners when paid back by the state and make a lot of money with commissary items.

[@veronicabassi]

My son says terre haute is the worst prison in the world I mean bed prison he says it seems like it's the real Alcatraz because it's terrible there old dry cold rotten.

[@Sobule-pf7dz]

I need to comment on this because, most people are under the impression that all Prisons are these horrible places, and people are always dying, and no one cares, and there are rats and roaches and no running water, and feces filled toilets, holes in the walls, etc. etc. I am not sure where these type of places exist, but I can assure you it's not in the facilities of Core Civic. I have been an employee for 5 yrs, and I have gone to multiple facilities, and they really do run some of the cleanest prisons I've ever seen. I am just a regular employee, not anyone with the Admin or higher up authority. I am African American, and while it is true we face retention challenges, all prisons do. Look at the statistics with state ran prisons, sometime it's far worst than private...and, if there were no issues to be fixed with the DOC/BOPP Private prisons could not survive. So, while there are a lot of people who don't like Private Prisons because there are profits involved, you need think about the America we live in, profits and investments is part of A great America. Investing in bettering the Public Good is one of our main priorities. Our families live in the public everyday, how coudl we in good conscious release people who have been treated poorly and wrongly into society. Don't get me wrong, Prison is not a vacation, There are no perfect places anywhere in the world, but we strive daily to respect our client, tend to their needs, follow federal and state guidelines and uplift their spirits and let me tell you...we hit that mark every single day. Before I came to Core Civic I never knew the places where prisoners live could be so nice, I was clueless just like a lot of you. There are flats-screens, microwaves, Gaming systems, tables, media music devices, full gyms, with great equipment, music rooms with instruments, programming, college courses etc. hell grammar schools in some areas don't even have some of the things that we offer in our facilities....... IJS

[@ronda1444]

Core Civic doesn't give a shit about inmates. They are for profit only. The complaints about Core Civic are not just from inmates, it's current and previous employees. A civil rights attorney is currently receiving info from inmates and employees who are in these prisons. They need shut down! Also, none of the things you stated are offered at Core Civic. A perfect example is Lake Erie Correctional in Conneaut Ohio. Programs are not offered. They shut them down to use the space for more bunks. More bunks equals more money.

[@RobbieJ-z2x]

Your a LIAR. or high or drunk cause u don't know what the fuck u talking about

[@gladysjarrett6082]

FACTS!!!