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Dealing with Inmates Can be Intimidating for a New Corrections Officer I would never have admitted at the time that I was afraid of dealing with inmates when I first walked onto a prison yard but, I was. As a Corrections Officer, we received all the problem inmates from the other prisons in California, and most of the staff that worked at this new prison were new officers like me. The inmates knew this and were […]
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Common Prison Terms by Correctional Officers Listed here are prison terms that may come up when visiting or talking to your loved one. General population- these are the inmates who are allowed to have phone calls, visits, access to the yard, dayroom privileges, and packages. Basically, these inmates have access to other inmates, unless they choose not to by requesting protective custody. PC or Protective Custody– there are certain inmates who may choose to be […]
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Sunday Visit to my Brother During his Sixth Year of Incarceration Sunday Visit: I arrive at 8:00am today. There are already visitors waiting outside the office. The guards are changing shift and they walk by and say hello. One guard suggests that we sit in our car and wait because they won’t let us in until 8:15am. The gentleman that is waiting tells him that he just got dropped off and does not have a car. The guard […]
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Saturday Visit to my Brother During his Sixth Year of Incarceration I get to the prison at 8:10am for my Saturday visit. I enter the building. There are two female officers in the control room. They take no notice of me. There are supposed to be officers at the check-in table at 8:15. They show up at 8:30. While I am waiting, a young woman walks in, she is smiley and bubbly. She tells me that […]
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Welcome to Prison: The Hidden Sentence Blog
The purpose of this blog is to educate and empower those who have loved ones in prison.
Why is Prison a Hidden Sentence?
According to the US. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) 6,851,000 people were incarcerated or on probation or parole in 2014.
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My son is in prison My son wasn’t living with us at the time; we had kicked him out of the house 2-3 weeks prior. He moved in with a friend down the street: he was 17. I was happy he was down the street, but I had no idea he had a drug problem. I would talk to him every couple of days. One day his friend knocked on my door crying and told me […]
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