{"id":1033,"date":"2012-03-08T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-private-prison-employees-might-not-want-to-work-too-close-to-home-barbara-stratton.html"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:03:31","slug":"why-private-prison-employees-might-not-want-to-work-too-close-to-home-barbara-stratton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/why-private-prison-employees-might-not-want-to-work-too-close-to-home-barbara-stratton.html","title":{"rendered":"Why private prison employees might not want to work too close to home —Barbara Stratton"},"content":{"rendered":"Received yesterday on\n\nVideo: Drive Away CCA radio<\/a>. -jsq\n
\nGreat interview John. The comment about employees not wanting to\nwork at a facility in the same county they live in was an\ninteresting thought relative to the proposed local employment\nbenefits. When I worked for CCA in the inmate Mental Health unit at\nthe Valdosta Correctional Institute we were always warned that\n\n<\/a>\nkeeping pictures of our families or anything personal on our desks\nwas possibly dangerous and therefore not recommended. I loved my job\nthere because being inside the prison meant we had to form close\nworking relationships with each other and I love teamwork on the job\nand it was never boring. We had almost constant training hours\nwarning us about the dangers of being in close contact with inmates\nand all the rules about interacting. Forheight=”1 instance we had one inmate\nwho was a brilliant artist. He like to gift us with his artwork,\nwhich we were allowed to accept as a non-personal gift to be placed\non the office walls. He was a very well behaved prisoner especially\nto females, but his beautiful artwork always consisted of some form\nof predator watching prey such as a cat watching a bird. We loved\nthe artwork, but took note of the inuendos.\n

\nPrisoners were always given strict instructions that\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\nthey were never\nto come near or contact any prison employee after they were\nreleased. Right after I left to help open Gold’s Gym in V-Town one\nof the MH professionals started having problems with a released\ninmate that immediately began contacting him and stalking by\npurposely attending the church where he was a member. The\nprofessional had to leave the church where he had been a long time\nteacher.\n

\nI could give other examples of why employees might not want to work\ntoo close to home and I’m glad you entered that thought into the\nproposed jobs equation. I loved my job and would never have left\nexcept outside financial benefits were better, but it’s definitely\nnot for everyone.\n

\nAs a sideline question — If the CCA deal is retracted will the\nIndustrial Authority buy back the parcel they sold to Mr. Bassford\nsince he won’t be making his\n\nmillion plus profit<\/a> from the parcel sale to CCA?\n

\n-Barbara Stratton\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received yesterday on Video: Drive Away CCA radio. -jsq Great interview John. The comment about employees not wanting to work at a facility in the same county they live in was an interesting thought relative to the proposed local employment benefits. When I worked for CCA in the inmate Mental Health unit at the Valdosta […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,14,15,8,2,19,72,20,178],"tags":[1428,8817,8705,8730,1622,1942,75,1297,2945,2944,2943],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-georgia","category-government","category-history","category-incarceration","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-barbara-stratton","tag-cca","tag-education","tag-incarceration","tag-land","tag-mental-health","tag-prison","tag-private-prison","tag-stalking","tag-sweetheart-deal","tag-valdosta-correctional-institute"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}