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A Creamy White Guy’s Prison Survival Guide or How I Bid My Time In Prison

By juliaeditor / 12/15/2015 / 3 Comments

Note from Editor: The facility names have been changed to generic names. Prison Survival I am an Old Guy (OG). Actually I’m an old white (WOG?) who recently completed his first bid up-state in Prison#1 and had to learn prison survival. My stamp? DUI, interfering, resisting, FTA, and a little bit of weed. While my attorney haggled over these charges with the prosecutor I languished in Prison#1 for four months. Upon receiving my sentence I was sent “up […]

Correctional Officer Story

By juliaeditor / 06/29/2015 / 1 Comment

My Background as a Correctional Officer I was a former female correctional officer for the state of California several years ago and worked in a level 3 and 4 male prisons throughout my six-year career. A level 3 prison is designated for the less violent offenders and level 4 prisons are designated for the most violent offenders who have life without the possibility of parole. I took the Sergeant’s exam for the state of California where I scored […]

Duties of a Correctional Officer

By juliaeditor / 06/29/2015 / 0 Comments

Correctional officers monitor and supervise adult offenders in a manner that ensures the safety and well-being of the public, the staff, and the inmates themselves. This is a definition that is given to us at the academy; but, the duties and training of a correctional officer are so extensive that it’s not fair to think of them as prison guards. A GED would be sufficient enough to get a job inside a correctional facility as […]

Dealing with Inmates in the 21st Century

By juliaeditor / 06/29/2015 / 1 Comment

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 […]

Son in Prison

By juliaeditor / 05/09/2015 / 2 Comments

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 […]

How to Send Money to a Loved One in Prison

By juliaeditor / 01/19/2015 / 2 Comments

Send Money Your loved one will ask you to send money and you need to know what they are provided by the prison system and what they need additional money for. Remember to stay within your budget when you send money. No matter how much you want your loved one to be as comfortable as possible in prison, you need to make sure that your family on the outside is being provided for. Why You […]