. I was in my fifth year of teaching when our school secretary was removed from our prison school for what I would learn later was an inappropriate relationship with a prisoner. I had learned that staff having inappropriate relationships with prisoners occurs during my training, and it was considered a serious department infraction. My first thought was why? Why would you risk being involved emotionally with someone who was capable of slitting your throat? In her case, the young man she was involved with was part of a drug deal robbery-massacre, he was convicted, and sentenced to life. She was very professional, and I was completely shocked when I was informed she would not be returning. My boss was also shocked, but he had informed me that this wasn’t the first time he had seen this happen. He was quite sure it wouldn’t be his last time either.
.I would see this happen several more times before I retired. I also watched our legislature pass laws that would make it a felony for staff to have inappropriate relationships with prisoners. Mr. Lazy was pretty nonchalant about her removal and believed there were more cases in the department just like it. He could be cynical at times but this did prove to be factual. Mr. Lazy didn’t stick around. He wasn’t getting anywhere with finding a job with Parole and Probation, and accepted a managers position with a large box retailer. He had never been in a managers position before. In retail, as a manager, he would not be working an eight hour day, or just 5 days a week. I didn’t want to mention this to him and figured the experience would be enlightening for him. I didn’t see or hear about him for some time. He would need to be replaced. That would take some time to do.
. In the mean time the existing teachers absorbed his students. At the same time the GED testing was being completed on the weekends by one of our local school districts. The school officer wasn’t impressed with the teacher giving the exams, or the process. He informed me that the teacher would fall asleep, and I felt he needed to let our school principal know. That was one of the quickest personnel changes I had seen in the department. The principal, once informed, made sure a new GED examiner was assigned to our school the very same day, and he thanked our school officer for letting him know. He even gave the school officer the authority to stop the GED testing process if there were any further discrepancies. So in a matter of a couple of weeks I had witnessed some rather quick, unexpected, personnel changes. I had no idea that in a few more weeks there would be more. .. Prison Stories To Be Continued… 1 Corinthians 1:26-31
MJ-Way 