25 years in Folsom Prison

[SacCityChickens]

Nice people,don't last long at Folsom. Pretty soon all you have left are the *ssholes.
Around here, Folsom Prison has such a stigma attached to it, I just tell people "I'm a retired state worker", when they ask what I do.
I have quite a few scars from my days in Folsom. Some you can see, & some you cannot.
SCC

 

[kenjofarms]

I have to say...Having chickens (or any animal) can help those demons stay down for a while...well...it works for me anyway. Enjoy the golden years, you earned them!

 

[Shireshome]

I don't think you started a "downer" I think it's a wonderful achievement to retire especially from a job environment such as the one you have described. I am glad you have such a great perspective on life, I imagine that is how you managed to survive in such a rancid environment. And I too am thankful for prisons. I only wish we kept the guillotine in the center of them with regular use.

 

[EweSheep]

Give the prisoners some chickens and they can raise them for meat and eggs! That would defuse the hostile enivornment they are in.

 

[dewey]

they should lock down Folsom Prison and flood it to the brim.

Being obviously clueless to what-prisons-house-who.......does that mean that this particular prison houses only people that have been given the death penalty?

 

[dewey]

Give the prisoners some chickens and they can raise them for meat and eggs! That would defuse the hostile enivornment they are in.

Stink-eye alone might be able to set some straight.

 

[Shireshome]

Since US District Court Judge Fogel ordered a moratorium of capital punishment back in 2006 there is no such thing as the death penalty in California, not that there was much of one before that. Apparently it is just too cruel. So instead, for the past 35 years Californians have paid $4 billion dollars to house and care for their worst offenders.

 

[SillyChicken]

I almost got a job as a prison guard (lower security, not like Folsom)....... SO glad I got the job I have now. I was pretty desperate to get out of Lowes, desperate enough to go work in a prison!!!

I'm a firm believer in capital punishment.... and Darwinism.. There is no reason to use (ruin) good people and taxpayers money to care for that vermin! .........comin around the bend!

 

[cassie]

I used to know a man who thought he wanted to be a prison guard. He was an ex professional wrestler. Big guy. Intimidating to look at. I think he would have made a good guard. Fair minded. Firm. Cool headed in a crises. Not easily ruffled. Could stand his ground in any situation. Anyway, he completed all the training, got hired, and found out he just couldn't do it. All those locks closing behind him as he entered the prison did it. This man could have handled anything the prisoners could have handed out, but he could not tolerate those locks.

 

[SacCityChickens]

Many people that work in prison can tell you their 2nd day was the hardest.
Everybody 'thinks' they can do the job, it's wading back in, the second day, you start to feel it!
My wife would remind me that my working in Folsom was what I must have wanted, because prior to prison work, I had a great job at Boeing. Awesome Co to work for, paid well, good benefits,ect. I would come home & complain that I was bored to tears & wished for a job with some excitement.
"Be careful what you wish for!"lol!

SCC