Just got back from working a 16 hour day. I ended up working in one of the segregation units for my second shift, and that was interesting to say the least. It's loud, it smells like ass (quite literally...) and you're dealing with some of the worst of the worst. There was a really nasty incident that happened in one of the main living units ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. Although I am still "the kid" on my staff, we had someone call in sick today and the relief person had never worked this unit so it was kind of nice to have someone else around to ask questions instead of it being me asking questions all the time. I'm really liking the place I'm working right now. The inmates are laid back ( Read more... )

The time is 8:18. I've been home for about an hour now. Enough time to make a quick dinner, check my e-mail, and most likely now I will go to bed. I had a good shift, and agreed to work a partial overtime shift. "2 or 3 hours at the most, it's a hospital transport." Five hours later I called the shift office to tell them the transport was over ( Read more... )

I had my first day in a tower today. I learned that being in the perimeter towers is LAME. You're in a little booth about 40' up in the air. You sit in a tall chair and watch absolutely nothing happen in the gravel space in between two fences covered in razor ribbon. There is nobody to talk to. Once or twice an hour you push a button that ( Read more... )

My friend Terry came down to visit this weekend, and we had a really good time. I'm sure I referenced this in yesterday's post, but all good. I'm still on my Sunday-Thursday, 0545-1415 assignment, and unless I get an emergency assignment or something, I will actually be in the same routine for all of August. Four days in one of the big units and ( Read more... )

My friend Terry is in town. His girlfriend is getting back into town from california or something, and she's from the tri-cities, so he took the day off and came down to Walla Walla, which works out since I had the day off as well. We grabbed some dinner, and are sitting around playing video games and drinking some beer. Good times.

It's 2:30, I just got home from work, and it was a really, really long day full of complete and utter suck. I'm tired, I'm cranky, and I really miss my girlfriend.

I woke up at 0400 to arrive at work at 0515. It is now 2237. I just got home. I'm tired and not looking forward to 0400 again, which will be in approximately 6.5 hours. Yesssss! However, overtime pay is good, and if they call looking for people to work overtime tomorrow I might do it again anyway. 16 hours sounds like it's going to suck, but ( Read more... )

It was a pretty good weekend. I went up to Pullman to get some of my things, and met up with Andy. I brought back my TV, some DVDs, a computer monitor, and did some laundry. I got home and my paycheck had arrived early, so I went to the bank and then went to Shopko to look for a basic TV stand. What I found instead was somewhat decent tv stand ( Read more... )

I'm working in the penitentiary's main kitchen this week. To be more precise, I'm spending eight hours a day sitting in a little booth hitting buttons that open doors. I am doing this because nobody likes to do it, and I am "The new guy." Actually, they started using my last name about 1/2 way through the first day. The booth is basically a ( Read more... )