What is the future of corrections?

Too often those of us who either work now in security or have worked in security in the past forget the need for positive inmate programs.

[@codyd4247]

Big rocks to Little Rock’s … farming !!!

[@thomasryan2679]

I'm sorry for the sarcasm and promise it won't happen again. I worked corrections for 3 years before switching over to police patrol. On the midnights, I watched 188 inmates by myself. That's the tour we cooked 2 meals (1400 trays), did building maintenance, did counts, and got inmates ready for transports. Understaffing and mandatory overtime with last-minute notice had me glad to leave. I worked NYC-MCC. That's where Epstein killed himself. I had Nicky Barnes, Carmine Galante, Carmine Persico, Frank Lucas, and the whole Goodfella's group. Everyone wants me to say Tommy DeSimone (Pesci played) was a psychopath, but he wasn't. I knew he was a bad guy, but in jail he was a crybaby whiner. And big drug addict. The movie took dramatic liberty with him. Movie audiences was to get scared, laugh, and cry. The Atlanta Penitentiary scene was absolutely BS. Inmates never had cases of booze and lobsters. Harold Konigsberg was the evilest man in this country. He made Kuklinski seem like a Boy Scout. He could crush a man's skull with one hand. He told me he has graveyards out there nobody has found.

[@thomasryan2679]

How about staffing? Nobody wants this job anymore. Mandatory overtime alone is worth quitting over. I won't recommend a corrections career to others. How many times do you repeat, "the fact of the matter is"? It's a worn-out cliche.

[@copscorrections2494]

Thanks for the input.

[@dustroys7239]

You get fmla and take control of your life. We all signed up knowing mandates are part of the job. What I didn’t sign up for is getting mandated 3 times a week with no end in sight because the state refuses to offer incentives because it’s cheaper to pay overtime. Things would change fast if the admin got mandated a few times a week for years on end