What kind of job training? wuldnt mind getting an inside scoop myself if its something new. I pretty much know all the old tricks

Nah just Job Steward training for the Union; I got voluntold by my friends on the board, they have no Union reps on First Watch so they asked me to do it, since I like them I said sure. Boring Grievance and Legal class but home now so more stories like normal on the way.

For now enjoying some mead I picked up at BevMo and never seen the Marlboro Black and Gold before so grabbed a pack of those too.

Have fun with that…. Haha lol! At least you get away for a bit.

I am about to leave to Disneyland. I am chaperoning my daughter’s middle school jazz band trip. Pray for me…. Going to be sitting on a bus with 40 kids for 8+hours.

Hah, fck that noise, I'd rather be at work than do that!

I got a fancy meadery down the street from me. been wanting to go there. WTF is job steward training? is that like training new recruits or something like that? I know all prison lingo but CO lingo, espically Cali lingo i might not be familiar with. You got a real convict in the house now G. gimme some REAL DIRT! something these other guys dont understand.secrect is safe with me

I normally order mead from Drinking Horn, great stuff and flavors, but while I was in the city I grabbed this, not bad.

https://drinkinghornmeadery.com/buy-mead/

Job Steward is pretty… boring. Basically if a C/O gets a grievance from an inmate or staff or adverse action from Admin I can represent them, I make sure C/O rights are protected, like a lawyer but I only deal with non-criminal cases.

Fuk yeah mirin hard

SAY WHAT!? LOL your kidding me? You guys get hundreds of grievences a day at least. Now im REALLY curious how you guys sort that out. My dad and buddy would love to hear this. Sounds like its actually an important job. I never had a grievence. wasnt in prison long enough. I was dress in dress out. Still been locked abroad though.And my dad has done over 15 years. doing time now for driving

I remember i was in Carrol CO GA. i was locked up when i saw this news crew out the windows. This crazy bitch and her boyfriend that drove a hearse killed her best friend cause she was pretty and she was fat. Like some Johnnydeep chit or something.Jail was fun those few days

Most grievances are dumped at lowest level; inmate has no grounds to grieve basically. Things like 'My cell got searched' well no sht, I need (required) to do 6 randoms a day, deal with it. I represent when it's an goes higher up as a potential for staff misconduct; we win most since it wasn't any intentional misconduct so much as inmates have nothing but time to file; some do 10 grievance's per day or more….

I've been filed on for not giving an inmate a food tray in his cell; he had no restrictions and could walk to the dining hall, he just didn't want to so he filed on me, that got tossed, as one example.

Last place i was in we made all our grievences on the kiosk. And it was so small only one person, the superintendant of the jail looked at them. She was cool as heel and liked me but i did actually say something about something. dont remember what but she turned it down quick. Think it had to do with being charged some bogus doctor visit fee or something. i forgot about that.

We went like 6 months without haircuts cause it was during covid lockdown. so we started buying Magic Shave and putting it on out heads and chit.Chit worked but it burned like a motherfuker. A lot of us were going around with redheaded bald shaved heads.

We still use paper forms, most of the grievances are garbage, maybe 1 out of 100 is legit, most are just being butt hurt that we do our jobs; didn't let you go to yard? Well no sht, your Loss of Privilege Yard… just making me look good for doing my job.

@gbullock32

I just read that Danny Masterson is getting transferred today to max security at Corcoran state prison for his 30 years to life sentence. Realistically, how fuсked is a guy like him? Will the other inmates fuсk with him just because they can?

Thx in advance.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/enter...n/72423803007/

Most likely going to have people try to extort him for money, but he should be fine if he keeps to himself; might have some from time to time try to go after him for the fame of stabbing someone famous. Given it's max security though very little interaction with other inmates, escorted most places, and a lot of in cell time.


There was a rumor he was coming to the yard I work but guess they went with Kern instead, good, last thing I want is all the BS that comes with famous people. Got enough sht with that Cal Poly murderer at the prison.

Working A yard as SPO #1 and just doing my count in building 1 at the time, I then hear my partner over the radio "Central Control, be advised we have a possible suicide in Alpha 5, cell 101, dispatch the ERV." He said it so calmly that all of us on the yard just assume this guy is dead, so we just walk over, pissed that we have to deal with this sht tonight. We get to the building and go over to the cell, this fat motherfcker is laying on the ground pretending to be non-responsive (we can see him moving slightly when we yell at him) and acting like he tried to kill himself. One wrist had a small scratch on it, barely even bleeding, some toilet paper would have been fine to get that taken care of; his other wrist wasn't even bleeding, just scratched, and he had all of his property on the bunk in bins ready to go.

This ass hat just wanted off the yard so he is faking a suicide attempt, dammit, now we have to play along because policy even though we know he is faking. The ambulance gets there and we open the door and tell the guy to get up and lay in the gurney, we know he is faking it. Nope, he just lays there and mumbles he lost too much blood and can't move, douche you didn't even lost more than a few drops, but he wont move. We cuff him up and this guy is easily 300 pounds or more, and we have to drag his fat ass out of the cell then pick him up and put him into the gurney; we may have been a bit rough with it because, well, fcker weighs so much and we're mad as hell at this point.

The guy went to our onsite hospital, the psych doctor just rubber stamps the forms to put the guy on suicide watch, so he went over to another yard for 1 on 1 observation (nurse does it, though we can do it to based on staffing). So at least he wasn't our problem anymore after that.

Thanks for explaining. That don't sound too bad, other than the occasional person trying to stab him. Still a brootal change in lifestyle.

Whats up with the state wide lockdowns?? and i saw a pic of that guy who got stomped the fukk out last week and killed, yikes

Always happy to explain the job, if people just knew what we do than they understand better the situations we go through. PTSD is a bitch (not that I'd admit to having it), we see and do sht people could never imagine… better me than someone else.

Hah, lockdown? Nah, not since 2016 or so do we do that, normal program isolated incident is the normal excuse; at most we can do a 2 week lockdown. When I started in 2015 we'd do year long lockdowns, but those days are gone.

Murder, staff assault, riot? Isolated incident, normal program. Fck staff.

Nah, Danny will be just fine.didnt think he would be going to a max though. What was he charged with rape? Well he will be fine i think. Long as no kid stuff comes up. But i hear bad things about Cali Supermax joints. Hes just going to a max. Whats the Max joints like G?I bet they still suck big time. Id rather go to a Medium than a min prison

Super max isn't too bad, lockdown status petty much so he wont have much interaction with other inmates. He's gonna be fine, might pay for 'protection' but that's all.

Yeah but its max not supermax. Ive known people that did time in max. matter of fact let me call him up real quick. They arent on lockdown that bad are they? should get 8 hours out right?

Not sure on how much time out of the cell they get, we're open most of the day but we are only level 3, very surprised they are sending him to Kern still though. Seems like someone hates him, there are a lot of places that are quieter and less violent.

Well last night could have gone annoying. Working A yard SPO# 1 and just doing a security check at the beginning of the shift, my partner and I each take half the building and it's pretty much a body check; make sure no one is dead, and if they are we catch it right away. So I get to cell 142 and the guy has the whole window on the door blocked up with cardboard, so I tap the door with my flashlight and tell him to take the window cover down. No response at all, so I tap the door again, still no response.

Out comes the baton and I start pounding the door, still telling the guy to take down the window cover. No response at all, no sound from the cell, fck. So we call everyone over to the building, always good to have as many people you can, and we open the food port on the door to look in. My partner just says "Fck I think he's hanging" the guy was just standing there, slightly slumped forward and for some reason he had a sock over his head like a mask. He's not moving, and my partner yells the guys name, he finally moves and walks to the door and takes down the window cover; he's obviously high but he's alive, it just looked like he had been hanging at first glance.

We ask him what he was doing and why he wasn't responding. He just says "I was bored and thought this would be funny." Motherfcker, we explain how not bored he is going to be if he pulls this sht again because we will be coming in there next time. He just shrugs and goes to sit on his bunk, weird but whatever, he's alive and responding now so we're good. Luckily he just went to sleep for the rest of the night, still never found out what the sock on the head was about but my guess is drugs made it seem like a good idea?

Just another day at work, but small sht like that is no big deal, had he been hanging it would have been a long night.

Heading to work in a minute, but we've been talking about this for a few days; 200 man riot, they attacked staff. We're still waiting to see if it was a one and done thing or if this is going to carry over into something more.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/...injuring-nine/

They mention "The past few months have been a particularly violent time for California prisons…" well no sht, go soft on inmates and give them everything, drop most of our write ups… it was predictable.

Working D Building 3 on the floor, it's recall so all the inmates are going into their cells, one jackass decides to jump in the shower; normally we can turn the water on or off, but some of the showers are busted so the water is always on or always off. This shower was one that was always on, we normally lock it up near recall but we forgot today. I tell the inmate to get out of the shower, he tells me to fck off and starts the water. Ok, fck off? I walk over and he knows I am not about to drag a naked wet guy out of the shower, not what I'm looking to do today. Instead I just tell him "Fine, take all the showers!" and I lock him in the shower. We can use the showers as temporary holding cells for up to 4 hours, so his happy ass can stay in there.

Obviously he is pissed and stops the water and yells for me to let him out, nah, we're on my time and I'll get to it when I damn well want. I went into the office, waited maybe 10 minutes and then went back over to the guy, "So, you want to lock it up now?" he just says yes, "We gonna have this problem again" he just says no. I let him out and he just locks it up while most of the building is laughing at him.

Fck with my down time and I'll fck with your whole day, never had that problem again in that building.

lmao

So get ready for a long one, been meaning to type something like this for a while but been lazy. This is pretty much an average 'slow' day for me, just got off a double shift and this is how the day went. Keep in mind this is a pretty standard day for me, 16 hour shift.

Started at 1400 working D Building 5 on the floor, my regular partners so all good so far! Get to the building and do our security check (make sure no one is dead) and talk to some of the inmates, how the day had been going and just BSing with them. So far boring. We go to the podium and just watch the dayroom, we then see an inmate standing outside the yard door and he is spinning in circles, like just spinning around. WTF? We do an inline, letting inmates in from the yard and letting them go into their cells, the guy who was spinning comes into the building and walks up to us at the podium and says "I almost got 3 spins in!" and he starts spinning Infront of us. We look at him, he's high as fck; we just tell him "Dude, go into your cell and don't come out for the rest of the day, your high and we don't want to deal with this sht right now."

He just says sure and goes in, well that was interesting. Right after that we have a porter come up to us, we have 11 bed moves to do, compaction which is when we cell guys who are alone with someone to make space for intake; we have 50ish coming this week to the building. Our porter is trying to explain who can move in with who, and he is so drunk he is slurring like hell and can barely stand. Suddenly he pukes all over the floor and falls over; luckily he's still responding so some other porters just carry him into his cell, fck it, we'll check on him and make sure he doesn't die every hour or so. Onto the next problem, a few of the guys are refusing cell mates. Nah, you don't get to refuse; suck, fck or fight. All but one just agree to a cell mate, one tells us he's going to fight whoever we put in there. He steps way too close to my partner while talking, less than a foot away so I tell him to step back a bit, he looked confused until he noticed both of us were about to pull our batons. If an inmate is withing punching distance while talking to me sht is about to go bad for someone; he stepped back though, but he was still agitated. OK guy, well get at it, fight him, we'll wait a few minutes to step in. He still refuses to go into the cell so we 'escort' him to the cell and just shut the door, they'll figure it out. 10 minutes go by and we go to check, they're just watching TV and eating some ramen together… again WTF? Whatever, not our problem now, just a lot of bitching and moaning for nothing.

Recall rolls around at, all normal, then dinner, still normal. We open up for yard and dayroom again and since it's raining every damn inmate decides to stay in the dayroom, great. We notice a lot are drunk or high, gotta love Sundays. We send about a dozen out of the 90 or so who came out back to their cells, more sht we ain't got time for. Luckily, again, it got quite for us after that for the rest of that shift…

On to my next shift, 2200-0600, A Yard SPO# 4, I only have 1 regular partner and my regular Sgt.; 2 of my partners are new cops who have never done SPO spots before. Fcking great, gonna be training them all night; we give them our rundown of how we do things, what their jobs are, how we do alarms or emergencies, ect. Cool, they're listening and aren't dumb, so far so good. Until it wasn't. They pop my regular partner for a hospital run, now it's just me and 2 new cops, fckin' awesome.

Well, night goes smooth, until towards the end, we have 2 inmates who are being transferred to a different prison, the one in my building I woke up was ready to go, great! I ask the new cop how the guy he told was, he said the guy was ready to go. Sht, this is awesome, normally we have someone refuse to transfer, well, no isn't an option, they can walk to Receive & Release (R&R), or we can walk you. So the Control Booths pop out the guys who are transferring and it's 0518, we are off at 0600; the guy I told came out no problem, the guy the new cop told just closed his door. Fck, last thing I want to do at the end of the shift is 'make' a guy walk to R&R. So I walk to the building and ask the guy what is wrong. Well, new cop didn't actually talk to him, turns out the guy just wants to bring his property with him. Normally they have their property packet up a week before they transfer, but this guy was at a doctors appointment so they skipped him. Fck, that's an easy fix, grab your sht, I don't care. He packs his stuff, it takes maybe 5 minutes and he's good to go. My Sgt. and I were all stressed for nothing in the end, new cop just didn't know how to talk to inmates, no social skills at all, which is annoyingly common now.

Just another day at work.

So they get taken to R&R, finally end of my shifts, time to drink myself to blackout and smoke myself to cancer; it can't come fast enough!

Little vodka and OJ, breakfast of champions.

Make 6 figures+, still eat this for lunch, with some vodka and a BuzzBall.

had me nodding agreement up until the buzzball, cant believe anyone can stomach that stuff, taste like a jolly rancher's wet butthole

any of your colleagues from non-related career paths? like white collar career changers etc?

1 BuzzBall is fine, more than that and I'll get sick, too sweet, doesn't help it was tequila. As far as people going to other jobs; some retired and just do other jobs for fun/money, some resigned before getting fired for various reasons, most DUIs, some injury so they go into Admin. It depends on the person.