[mass55th]

I worked as a C.O. and Sergeant in NY State's prison system before retiring in 2003. I'm a female, only worked in male prisons. The first week I was at Auburn, I was paired with an older officer. We were in the mess hall. The officer I was with pointed and said to me: "Watch out for this one...he's keeping an eye out for you."

I didn't understand his comment until I realized that the inmate he was talking about had an eye patch.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I put coal into the power plant at Sandstone Prison, a federal pen in S. Minnesota years ago. The plant was one very scary place.
Our first few tons hit the grates but we couldn’t get the stuff to ignite.

Only rags, diesel fuel and hand torches...over and over, the stuff would not fire.

A convict came into the power plant and wanted to know why there was no heat or hot water for the mid day meal...”we got 350 hungry ‘cons’ upstairs.”
My gruff old fuel engineer looked at the guy and said, “What are your worried about? They ain’t going no where...”