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I'm an older female who worked in uniform for 23 years in New York State's prison system and saw a few of these dummies get involved with the inmates. It's pretty pathetic, especially in light of the fact that many of the convicts were diddling with the homos in the prison at the same time they were diddling with the employee.

On numerous occasions, we'd have wives and girlfriends of inmates show up at the same time to visit the con and the fur would fly. One of my fellow Sergeants got caught in the middle of a cat fight, trying to separate the two women. There were even times when the inmate would choose to visit with the girlfriend and leave his wife sitting in the waiting room. What these women don't realize is that inmates are con artists. They are usually writing and calling multiple women and having them visit them, send them money or packages. It's a racket.

Once during my 13 years as a supervisor, I had to talk to a female officer whose behavior was less than stellar. I had gotten a tip from a con that a certain inmate had a new girlfriend and the snitch pointed to a new rookie female officer. I shrugged it off initially as simply inmate rumor, but when I saw the two of them laughing and giggling one morning behind the chow line, I recalled what the snitch had told me and called the officer in to speak with her.

She denied everything, but as it turns out, she was guilty. I had the inmate's cubicle searched and besides items he'd stolen from the kitchen, I found a short letter, unsigned, that obviously came from a female. The letter was frilly, full of affectionate comments, calling the inmate her "guardian angel." I knew that this officer had been working in the school building for a while and took the letter to compare the writing. I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, but when I checked the logbook for her script, my stomach lurched as I discovered the writing matched. I made copies of her log entries and turned the letter and the copies over to the Lieutenant.

From what I understand, they called her in, asked her outright and she denied it. What burned her was that she was sending packages in to the inmate in the name and from the address of the people she was living with at the time she was working at the prison. She was a widow with two or three children, and obviously needed a decent paying job to support her family. She was a stupid woman who made a stupid mistake and it cost her a well-paying job. Unfortunately there are alot of dummies like her out there.