Oleoresin Capsicum

So week five out of six of my academy is complete. I have never been in soo much pain until this week. It started with Use of Force and the electric restraint belt, then moved on to Defensive Tactics for three days. Yesterday, Friday, was OC training... I hate that stuff. I could only think of one person I would wish that on and it's a current inmate. I swear that the first officer to spray me with it WILL feel my pain after I decontaminate.

The rest of the academy has been pretty good. I really enjoyed our cell searching training. A supervisor cleared out a problem pod for us to search. I found a lighter and cottonballs during my search and was quite pleased with myself. The other cadets found some good stuff including homemade hooch and a piece of nail clipper that was getting filed down for a knife.

Will-Cuff 10-7

Shower Party!

Ok so, I can't quite figure out why we have been having such a problem with inmates not wanting to shower daily. Tonight I assisted two other officers in showering an inmate. I'm not talking about bringing gifts or throwing confetti, I'm talking about strip him naked, toss him in the shower and dump soapy water on him to make him not smell like a corn nugget hanging from Satan's anus after a day at the gym. I guess I could see how someone may take the "don't drop the soap" joke seriously but come on... If someone's going to rape you it would most likely be in prison, not jail, and if you split a cell with them your a lot more vulnerable while your sleeping (specially if you sleep on your stomach).


I have to say that over the last 2 months I have seen, heard, touched, smelt and tasted the worst things I have ever came in contact with in my life. I say tasted because I ate an inmate meal for lunch once. Lunch is two sandwiches, a bag of stale chips, and a bag with two cookies in it. The sandwiches are mustard and mayo with cheese and usually bologna made of turkey.

Will-Cuff 10-7

Still Here

I know I've announced my return and failed to continue posting. I have been quite busy. My shift will be rotating to swing shift next month and I hate the idea of it.

Swing shift is our worst shift because that's when all the bad things happen. The inmates have from 6pm to 9pm to find ways of bothering you before they are locked down for the night. Serving dinner trays will be one of the worst parts of the shift as well. I have enjoyed day shift when all I have to do is give them two sandwiches, chips and cookies.


I haven't had anything majorly funny to post on so far. The only thing I can think to comment on is, don't get arrested for stealing a Slurpee then come to the jail and mouth off if you can't defend yourself physically. We have someone in custody for stealing a Slurpee who has had his ass kicked twice in two days because he mouths off to the other inmates and when it turns physical he gets beat.

Will Cuff 10-7

Out of FTO

So I am now out of FTO. Today was my first day on the regular shift and wow was it an experience.
I was in a control tower opening and closing doors for our roving officers who were taking care of the inmates in the pods.

My days of FTO were a pair of fun filled days as well. Last week there was a confrontation in a pod in which the whole pod was refusing to lockdown. I thought we were going to go hands on with them to force a lockdown which would have gone sour real fast. I fed our max security pod lunch without incident however when preparing to feed the high security pod I was greeted by a flow of water off the second tier balcony coming from a cell. That's right, they decided to flood their pod with toilet water. Why? Because they wanted to be fed. Nice job idiots, now you don't get fed till the water is all cleaned up. They had just finished cleaning up after someone broke a fire sprinkler off in a cell which flooded the pod too.

Now that I'm off my FTO time I should have a few more noteworthy occurances to talk about.

Will Cuff 10-7

Day One

So today was day one of my career as a corrections officer. I was with Human Resources for most of the day during which we filled out our paperwork for insurance and life benefits. Then we went over policies for discrimination and sexual harassment.

We discussed customer service (sucktomer curvis as I call it) due to the fact that there were employees for other departments in the orientation with me. I laughed during it because they were talking about how your attitude effects people's thoughts and feelings and that a bad attitude would make someone not want to return. I saw the humor because WHO WANTS TO GO TO JAIL? I had to explain why I was laughing breifly to the instructor who didn't quite see my side of things.

During the sexual harassment portion I texted with my mother (who is a detective if you didn't already know) stating that I was getting sexual harassment training. She responded saying that after the class I should be able to sexually harass people professionally. I responded saying I didn't realize I had been doing it wrong. I must admit, I live in a family with twisted humor.



Tomorrow I get to return to the wonderful people in HR for risk management, blood born pathogens and a driving test. Wish me luck tomorrow.

Will-Cuff 10-7

I'm Back!

Ok so after a long hiatus after quitting dispatching I am now starting as a corrections officer. My first day is this Monday which will be spent with HR (yay...) followed by Tuesday with the same people. The rest of that week will be with my FTO. I am way excited. I hope you all have missed me and I'm proud to say that I'm back!

Will-Tone 10-7