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Mick
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Oh look Looney Toones is back. |
Igoturback
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humm Administrator: |
Sergeant Major
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Oh Brother! and I thought I left all the psychos at work… |
Afrobob
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Is there anyway we can remove this crazed person’s account from this website? I feel mentally ill just reading the bullcrap she’s putting up here. Perhaps she should be locked in a rubber-room somewhere far away from computers and people. I wouldn’t be surprised if she tried to present charges against herself for sexual abuse. |
Squeeze
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Wow, it’s been a while but I must respond. Sexual_trauma, do you work in corrections and how did you possibly get past the psych testing. No offense but this isn’t the forum for this type of personal subject. The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 is addressing many of the abuse issues in prisons and jails but your comments are not appropriate for this forum. If the issues deals with how we as Correctiosn Proffessionals are conducting ourselves within the scope of our employement but to characterize all Police and Corrections personel the way you have is not applicable to all. |
Afrobob
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Why do I get the feeling this chick’s default is set to sexual abuse. Maybe you did get molested by your father and maybe that made you crazy. Hence forth, anything and everything that happened to you where anyone touched for any reason, brought you back to that original abuse, thereby making it seem like you were being victimized all over again. Perhaps you should look into getting on some anti-psychotic medications. |
Mick
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Hmmmmm!!!!!!!! Like I said in deep need of Psychological help. |
sexual_truama
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i’m proud and happy to know i was born and raised in Minnesota ha ha ha!! it’s the freeiest state there is in America and the safest!! Administrator: |
sexual_truama
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oops i mean they do worse physicals in southern states on children not did….i never had a physical in missouri never lived there at that age thank god!!! it happen in Minnesota when i got sexually abused durring a kid phsycal!!!! |
Mick
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Firstly I would like to ask you a couple of Questions. Did you or have you ever made a formal complaint to the Police about your alleged abuse? And if you have what was the outcome? |
LT.
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Yeah, I work at Emerald Correctional Management Co. I have been there for 3 yrs and havent ever had a 15 min break and or 30 Lunch break, our Jail is very small facility 164 bed facility, and the only ones that get breaks are the Admin people. The Warden goes and gets two trays of food over flowing with food and mean while the ones that work there asses off, get nothing. One of the employees at another facility filed a class action law suit about a year ago and of course nothing has changed just our warden about 4 times and Chief of security. We go thru more guards than underware. More dirty guards than you can image….Wow that place sucks….but with todays economy and jobs being scarce its kind of hard to find anything else. Any advise for anybody other than hang in there??? |
Afrobob
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At Idaho Correctional Center, run by CCA, we work 12 to 16 hour shifts and are not alotted breaks of any sort. |
readyset
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Our shifts are 8.5 hours long and we are paid for 8 hours. I have been there 6 months and have never had a 10 minute break or a dedicated half hour to eat lunch. No one else gets theirs either. I wonder how long it will take for some high powered attorney to file a class action suit and get all the money for those unpaid half hour shifts. Obviously those of us who aren’t getting them are too shy to speak up. You would think some senior officers would do something. Looks like a job for Sokolove law. Too bad they’ll get all the money |
Mudflap
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The joint where I work no longer allows staff to get as much as a hot dog from the chow hall. Budget cuts, ya know. |
cat_daddy
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We don’t have designated breaks of any kind. If we get any type of break we are lucky. Normally you will catch me going to the kitchen to get my chow Im just lucky that I work at a regional facility them state facilities are dirt. Truthfully though beside the mental stress I have always found Corrections to be a fairly easy job so long as I can walk the yard a couple times a day I dont really feel the need to have a break. Only times I really need one is after a 99 and thats normally just to have a smoke and calm down. If you get hungry just carry some bacon in your pocket. |
Larry
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Why is House Arrest so SLOW? For years now it gets harder and harder to Bond some one out. The Judge sets a bond with house arrest,Ok now you get to the jail ask for your person, and your on the phone to House Arrest at the same time and give both the info needed to post a bond. Your at the jail at 5:00pm calling House Arrest and keeping up on the Records Clerk at Jail. were sitting it out…. 7:45 you call up at the jail to see whats up? They are just waiting for House Arrest to get the fax. Time passes Slowy 8:01pm we call House Arrest, Now they say they cant do it . its after 8:00pm we can come back at 6:00am. |
juses
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Finally someone whoe isn’t stuck inside of their own agency. Not all agencies are the same being in a right to work state and in law enforcement we don’t get the same priveleges as a unionized agency. No breaks. But we dont get information on offenders medical unless a serious incident were to ocurr and only after the fact. My wife was stuck with a dirty needle at our states max. They told her when the inmate went through intake a year earlier he was clean but they refused to have the offender tested at the time of her stick. |
Sarge276
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In response to Illinois Won…, Squeeze is right about federal laws not applying to some career fields. The way it was explained to me was that those laws apply mainly to the general workforce but not public service fields like EMS, FD, PD, SO, security, or corrections because of the nature of our jobs. I started out in private security then moved to corrections and have worked corrections in 2 states and never had a designated lunch break. We eat when we get a chance to eat and always on the clock because at any moment something could break loose. My facility provides the meals so we usually have the rover officer bring us something, but it doesn’t always happen. |
Mudflap
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IF we have a back up Officer the pod Officers don’t have to wait until count lockdowns to use the restroom! That’s scandalous! |
Littlejohn
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I’d LOVE to work an eight hour shift with no lunch break ! I’ve been working 13 hr shifts since 1993 and we’re allowed a fifteen (yes 15) minute break once a day for a supplied lunch. IF we have a back up Officer the pod Officers don’t have to wait until count lockdowns to use the restroom ! |
CHZBURGR
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In the institution I worked in if you were held over you would get relieved a few minutes early to take care of issues you may need to address. If you are a smoker you were allowed to leave the facility so that you could smoke. When I worked inside I would much rather do me eight and hit the gate anyway. Now that I am a PO I pretty much set my schedule so it is a non issue. |
Mudflap
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I’ve worked straight eights for so long that getting a break is no longer an issue. Policy states we are to be provided a 15 minute break if we’re froze but it doesn’t happen (if I’m froze that means there is a bare minimum to run the shift and there isn’t anyone available to relieve me). At one time the brass offered anyone who got froze a cold prison balogna sandwich and, while most of us appreciated the thought, we said no thanks… we’d rather do without. A rover will eventually be able to make a vending machine run for those of us who are froze. |
shakey
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I stand corrected on the one part and that is if the inmate has a contagous conditition thats spreadable by airborn means then we will not transport by a state van but by squad and notification is given and posted to warn persons in close proximity. I was also told that they now will inform you if you are involved in a use of force or say you got stuck by a needle,(after the fact) that the person has a condition but other than that they are not required you tell you anything. As for the breaks here in Ohio we work a streight 8 hours no breaks you eat on the clock. You might get a 15 minute break if you are froze over so you can go get something to eat from the vending machine or to do whatever you want for that 15 minutes but only if and when they can find a extra officer to releave you. |
Squeeze
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While we have a union (FOP00) in our facility and are curently on an extended contract (ended 07/01/09) the issue of breaks has only been brought to the attention of the negotiators once. At one time the admin asked the union what they though of 12 hour shifts. The union agreed to a pilot trial period in the old part of the jail attatched to the courthouse. The provisions were a 1/2 hour break (paid) somewjere in the middle of that shift. When the pilot period concluded the officers overwhelmingly wanted to return to 8 hr shift with no set break period. I as a classification officer back then did reciewv 1/2 hour lunch break but found I was working most of those and decided to just work the 8. Later we were addee dto the bargaining unit and worked just the 8. Our admin has been very flexible with the time off post for small breaks as needed and didn’t believe the need for designated non-paid breaks. When I worked in Oregon Stae facilitry it was the opposite. Maybe the difference is state prison vs county jail. I was a deputy in Wa state back in the 80’s and our jail staff preferred a straight 8. Wa is a closed shop state as well as not a right to work state. |
Squeeze
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A county in nebraska. The issue if you read the statute indicates that the HIPPA exemption may not supercede a state statute that may be more restrictive. However you can always go the legal route and make a motion for discovery pertaining to that particular incident. I am not sure if a state can force a blood test for pathogens. However I was involved in an altercation with an inmate and was tested for 6 months courtesy of the institution. But that was pre-HIPPA. I will research this issue further. It seems to me that a “victim” should have right to protected health information on an inmate in circumstances such as yours. Given proper protection of that information of course once disseminated to the victin. |
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