“No movement at this time,” the control center announced. “No movement AT THIS TIME.”
Pulled from their designated areas, the corrections officers rushed over to five-block.
What was so important that all prison programs were left in a holding pattern? What could it be? Staff assault? Convicts fighting? A critical tool missing? What? To add to the confusion the emergency siren never whirred into an ear-piercing sound. No movement, nothing more, nothing less. Stay put. Stay where you are. And the inmates listened. Unlike the tornado drill where they were hoping for the perimeter fence to be carried off.
The ordeal took longer than expected. The corrections officers were told to put hard restraints and a spit-mask on Prisoner X. After two years of not showering, his legal guardian (his mother) signed a consent form; without it, Prisoner X had the right to enjoy his foul body order forever.
I checked my Prisoner Rule Violation book for hygiene rules. There were none. Management advises us to treat the mentally impaired inmates the same as general population. I thought about the typical “Disobeying a Direct Order” ticket. A staff person might say, “Prisoner X, I am ordering you to take a shower before noon.” Seems reasonable. I guess he would beat the ticket because he’s not able to make an informed decision without the consent of his legal guardian. Writing a ticket, any ticket, on any prisoner of his caliber, would be a waste of time.
Anyway … Prisoner X is now cleaned-up. Custody staff even removed his spit-mask so the inmate-barber could give him a clean shave. We're back to business as usual.
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If there were still a highly qualified, motivated and dedicated prison educator in that unit he or she could have instructed Prisoner X on the importance of proper hygiene. Maybe then they could be taught to keep eating utensils out of the business end of their reproductive organs. Baby steps I guess. Send the straw boss over. I'm sure things would improve with a new sheriff in town.
It's not that he went two years without a shower that's nuts it's that his guardian took two years to give the consent form over.
WW, You're too funny. It just wouldn't be right sending over a straw boss considering what the five-block guys use those sippy straws for. I'm fairly sure you were the last teacher five-block will see in a long long time. Hope the public school gig is much better.
TWM, You know the saying: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Man, I love my job
A bath every 2 years, whether he needs it or not. Too much...
Did some Italian named Dante go to Michigan Corrections to get some material?
Makes me want to go back to good old Chaucer.
Ah. The Wife of Bath.
JR- add those hygiene rules, ASAP! I would 'nt let that ever be an option...GROSS!
Shudder~
Hey, JR. They definitely do NOT pay y'all enough!
aren't mentally retated ppl supposed to be in the asylum and not in the prison?
“No movement at this time,” the control center announced. “No movement AT THIS TIME.”
That's about the way it has been with my novels, though suddenly there is an uptick.
I have been courting newspaper editors for a review, and it looks like there is some promise of same.
Egad, I got so desperate I went to a Canadian political blog to get some exposure. There is a review, Ogawd, done by me...that was the arrangement-- at ChuckerCanuck 2.O
You can google ChuckerCanuck.
...Heh I'm picking up prison and drug terms. I think I had to blow the doorman to get any mention at all.
Take care
Reason #382 why I refused to go to five block after the first time.
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