In addition to the inside job part, the fact that an entire toilet was removed is crazy!!
Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office employee arrested following the escape of 10 inmates
“The escape wasn’t discovered until a routine head count at 8:30 a.m”…sounds as if head counts weren’t done for the 7+ hours preceding 8:30am.
That doesn’t really surprise me.
Over night headcount’s at notoriously poorly done.
I will keep that in mind in case I’m ever incarcerated and need to escape.
This is not at all my area of expertise, but looking through that article, it’s amazing the number of completely separate things that broke down and allowed this to happen.
Working midnight shifts we used to keep ourselves awake by plotting how to escape.
Little inside baseball.
We had a policy that once a week you had to use a rubber mallet on every brick in the housing unit.
I did it one day on a unit that I didn’t regularly work, and an inmate looked at me like I had three heads.
He said nobody had ever done that in the 4 months he had been there. But I can almost guarantee that there were reports on file that stated they did.
So, like every other job, employee compliance and adherence to rules varies. And, there are consequences to that.
Ya, unfortunately the consequences here can. E deadly, and that is not an exaggeration at all.
Problem is, it is a historical low paying, high stress, high turnover job.
My neighbor was a correctional officer. He got some kind of on the job injury and is retired now, but working part time somewhere.
But, in CA, the officers unions are powerful and they’re pretty well-paid.
@Sister retired from there.
Depends on where you live on how much you get paid. Also it depends on what type of facility you are working in, on how much is involved.
Worked my whole 30 year career in Massachusetts on the 11pm-7am shift. Did not have much stress. Retired in 2006, was making about 65 thousand. Part of the pay included such things as Holiday pay, roll call pay, night shift pay, extra pay for a college degree. Needless to say had a pretty good union.
Back in 2006, very easy to go over the 100 thousand dollar with some overtime. No idea on what the pay is now.
Retired at age 53, collecting 72%.
Lot’s of phony disabilities, Going out on a disability, the person gets 72% pay. That is state and federal tax free.
SWEET
A cool podcast about the Nashville prison.
https://www.audacy.com/podcast/gone-south-d1135/episodes/s4e20-breaking-into-prison-part-1-6d79c
After I quit working corrections it took me 6 months to realize that it didn’t suck to go to work.
I don’t want to relive it via podcast.
Funny story. My wife used to love watching “Lockup” and shows like that, in one episode a CO was breaking up a verbal confrontation between two inmates. One of them tried to talk and interrupt him and he stopped her and said “this is a one way conversation”.
My daughter stopped, looked at me, and said, “that sounded exactly like what you have said to me!”
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