Yeah I watched a juiced up wannabe Cop/MMA asshole who had to settle with being a CO beat the shit out of this 19 y/o with parkinson's.

All because he said "Hey Carr, I saw you sitting out in your Prius earlier. Do you sit when you pee too? " Just a childish jab. This guy is massive - 6'5" and all the time he spent outside the jail was at the gym.Not surprisingly his ego was so frail and he was insanely insecure. Welp he proceeded to bounce this guy off every wall as he dragged his ass to one of the holding cells for visits with your lawyer by the gate into our block.

When he had his fun, he left him in there for 4-5 hours while all the COs "visited" him. When he finally came back to our dorm he looked like shit. Thankfully he said only a few actually gave him more licks, most just gave him an earful for no reason and two of the old guys actually took the time to listen to him and calm him down.

Yeah the prison industrial complex that can pay flunkies $30-45$/hr even though plenty are worse people than many of the inmates whose lives they control 24/7. Yet teachers get paid like shit and universal healthcare is impossible to achieve.

Jail fucked me up. Thankfully despite all the terrible shit I saw and experienced. I realized after two months of trying to readjust to the real world it was up to me to change anything I didn't like about my life now that I had control of it again. That was almost 5 years ago and Ive gotten my masters in public policy, work full time in sales and am coming up on 5 years without booze or dope. But none of that rehabilitation was achieved inside those walls. I actually went backwards.

The problem with creating real change is the fact that jails and prisons are where we put people we don't want to help or don't know how to help. Then they become angrier and more bitter towards the society that has rejected them, stigmatizes their mere existence and provides little to no help with prisoner reentry when we send them back into their old environment and set them up to fail whether we let them max out and they're released with no supervision. Alternatively, they're released onto conditional supervision that provides more paths back to jail than onwards to success.

> Corrections officers are the kind of guys that flunk out or can't qualify for a police department. Their training is a whopping 48 hours.

I don't know about county, but you didn't specify in what you said.

Fuck, corrections officers, in a corrections facility, where the inmates are unarmed (usually, unless homemade weapons), need MORE training than a cop, with a gun???