What's the difference between an 8 year old and an inmate?

The inmate isn't 8.

I bought a camera, so I'll try to get pictures up here soon.

Things have been alright here. I've been settling into my job nicely and just been trying not to get yelled at. I have today and tomorrow off before I work on Thursday (here), then I have 3 more days, so I really only work one day this week. Now that I have been there a day or two, the inmates are starting to know me, and i caught myself the other day going "Man, this is a really nice guy." But then it hit me HE'S IN PRISON. So, maybe outside of the murder charge, he's an alright guy. Anyways, now that I've been there inmates are doing their little test to see how much I can take, or seeing how strict I am. One detainee (in for horrible things, I don't understand why he's in general population) was doing his cleaning because he's in the DWF (Detainee work force) which means he cleans the brig, I don't care, it saves the trouble of me having to do it. But I was working the Central Wing Round House, the board that opens and locks doors for 3 pods, 2 of which are in use. He was dusting the bars obviously trying to look busy, and he was in front of the window looking into the Female Special Quarters (Hints at why he's there). So I pounded on the plexy glass window, behind a set of bars, and told him to move on. So he got all mad but moved on, The Next duty day, I was, again, working Central wing, and I had just gotten relieved for "down time". The Detainee was out cleaning at that time so I told the person that relieved me to keep an eye on him. So as I was walking out of the wing into the guard lounge, I hear "Why does he need to keep an eye out on me?" I calmly told him not to worry about it. But he kept on going on and on about how he doesn't deserve that kind of disrespect. I get back 2 hours later from my down time and find that he had been written up 4 times in the 2 hours I had been asleep. Impressive. Apparently he had been throwing a fit until taps and interfered with count at the end of the day. So he written up for:
Failure to use rank
Disrespect
Disobedience
and Interfering with count

This past Sunday, I was working West wing (same as Central only with more inmates) I had to do Inmate Trainee Work Evaluations, for everyone in that wing, minus Special Quarters. So I had to evaluate around 27 people. In the middle of all of this I look at the paper work and find that one prisoner's evaluation that I had to fill out. So I filled it out the best I could with the short time I had been there, and sent the papers to all of the pods (3 of them) to have the inmates sign. I get them all back and all of them are signed except that one detainee... My Sergeant wanted them by taps, so I spent about 2 hours trying to get this one guy to sign it. Now it looks bad on him because he didn't sign it. We'll see how the this plays out, because I have a feeling I'm not done hearing about him, yet. Kind of a let down ending, but this is the kind of people with whom I interact on a daily basis.

Side note:
A Pod is a series of 18 Cells, 1 cell for one person. Central wing has 3 prisoners in 2 pods, one's a female, so she's naturally in a pod of her own. Male SQ has 15 inmates, around 10 are Maximum security. Plus the remaining 25 inmates in the other three pods.

Now I know what my mom felt like after teaching pre-k for all of those years.

But all-in-all, the job isn't that bad, it's just getting used to not being able to call anyone when ever I want, because right now it's 3:41 am, here. I think you all would get kind of mad if I called right now.

I had sushi for the first time out side of America here about a week ago, and I have to say t was a big let down. If you want to try sushi, try it wherever you are, it all taste the same. In other words, raw fish taste the same no matter where you go.