I don't quite know where to begin. I guess with the paint scrapers, ten inmates and one guard. The guard is crazy, to begin with. Or really stupid. Drugs and contraband? Check the visitors before beating up on the guards. Geeze, was your dad a *guard*? If so, why would he stay in such terrible conditions, with no back-up and such obviously perverted, out of control management? Jobs aren't *that* hard to come by and heaven knows prison guard doesn't pay so much that you put yourself in a life threatening situation. Unless, of course, he worked(s) at Pelican Bay in CA, where a guard can make $100,000 a year, with *really* good pension benefits.
Federal guards have to go to a long school, pass all sorts of background checks, personality checks, intensive testing both mentally, physically and emotionally. You sound like you've been watching too many movies.
I'll let the guards in Pa. make my argument for me.......Hear of any shedding any light on this agressive campaign by the governor to get out the prison vote? Listen long and hard. Sit down though, because it'll be a long time until a guard or prison staffer drops a dime on the governor. When it comes to the governor of the state and his reach within the state's prisons, politically and financially, you won't find any members of the union calling attention to the governor in this matter. It's not a good carreer move.