17.
“Not me, but a friend of mine is a correctional officer at a jail. He said there was an old Asian man that barely spoke any english that bashed his head on the wall until he started bleeding and demanded to be air lifted to a hospital in Atlanta. His injury wasn’t that bad so they were able to treat him in the jail and tossed him in the padded room so he could not hurt himself anymore. I guess he wasn’t satisfied so he took out his drenchers and scraped at the wound he got from hitting his head on the wall until there was a three inch area of skull exposed. Needless to say he got what he wanted and was air lifted out of there.”
18.
“One CO friend at a city lockup knew an inmate who everyone called ‘The Gingerbread Man.’ He would get naked and cover himself head to toe in poop. He was trying to get insanity, but his crimes were drug dealing related. He was beaten rather badly a number of times by the 3 or 5 guys he shared a cell with. He stopped eventually, then went to real prison.”
19.
“My friend who’s a CO knew a guy who was kept solo because he kept trying to give people his HIV. Filling plastic pen tubes with blood, he would try to stab people, and then blow into the tube. He died one night when my CO friend wasn’t there. He broke a light in the infirmary and started slashing himself up and threatening to give anyone who came in HIV. They locked the door and told him to wash up under the shower. He wouldn’t, and he bled out hours later. Some COs got reprimanded and demerits or whatever, but nobody lost a job because the investigator could understand not wanting to be given HIV from a bleeding psycho armed with long shards of broken glass.”
20.
“Not me, but a friend who worked in a state prison down south for a few years. On his first day of the job, a very tall, very intimidating inmate stood over him and said, ‘I could kill you right now if I wanted to.'”
