Prison Puzzle Pieces 3. Dave Basham
create a soap opera for the inmates.
Several other officers claimed to have received gratification from this gal. I had to believe it because she even came on to me. I guess in her psycho analytical mumbo jumbo you might say she must have had an officer fetish.
I would say that this shrink needed a shrink.
INAPPROPRIATENESS
A male officer was sitting on a chair when a female officer hopped on him, straddling him. She was bouncing up and down on him. She was married to another officer.
Obviously, this was an inappropriate action to take at work. However, she had a good sense of humor and if she could handle working in this place, her sense of humor must be somewhat warped.
I don't know what led up to this incident, but stress combined with boredom can make one do weird things that instantly pop into their head.
Because of this, she received 5 days off with no pay.
NAP TIME
Several officers were facing discipline for sleeping on the job; some had volunteered for overtime and dozed off. Others made it a habit to sleep when ever and where ever they could.
HAD TO GO
An officer was locked in a secured area that did not have any lavatory. He had a major urge. Instead of broadcasting to the entire institution over the radio that he had this severe urge, he urinated in the hallway. He faced discipline for his action. His life was going down the toilet, too bad his urine wasn’t.
I spoke to him about it later. He told me that he intended to mop it up once his relief came because he needed relief before his relief would be able to get to him to relieve himself.
Police were called to his house one night because of a domestic dispute. His wife accused him of going for his guns during a fight. She was divorcing him.
He was caught sleeping by the warden. His response was that he was just in a “state of rest.”
He had announced that he had sex with a man. He stated that he didn’t care who or what he did it with, so long as he was doing it.
FATHER & SON
There was an officer who was #2 on my officer enemy list at one point in time. He was one of the old boy network. He was a likeable sort of fellow when he wasn't being an asshole to me.
The story going around the institution was that he got nailed for driving drunk on his motorcycle; that he crashed with his wife on the back.
The officer had kept his mouth shut about this, but some officers noticed him getting a ride to work every day. His drinking and probably his injuries from the crash were causing him to call in sick a lot and show up late. One of the captains had him in her office a very long time one day trying to get him back on track. It seemed to work. As far as being totally competent to handle inmates and situations that arose in the institution, he was damn good at it. He just saw things his way, didn’t like how I did things and wanted me to see the job how he saw it.
His son started working here and didn’t make it through his probation period. He was an arrogant know it all. I had problems with him in the academy and was forced to verbally slam him down a few times when he contradicted my teachings. It was obvious that his father had bad mouthed me to him. I thought that if he made it through the probation period that it would only be because of his dad working here. However, that didn’t even help him.
SICKO
An officer, that liked bragging about strange things he had done, left the ranks of the employed.
He had a vent set up at his home so he could look through it into his daughter’s room. His daughter had a girlfriend over one day. He was looking through the vent jerking off when his wife happened by and caught him. She kicked him out of the house.
He was able to find a kinky girlfriend. In one of their kinky sessions he had her ram a huge dildo up his rectum.
Why someone would be bragging about something like this is beyond me. I fill you in on these stories so that you can realize the severe dysfunctions that we put up with in this place and the nature of some of the people we must work with.
In my entire life, I have never been exposed to such blatant sickening things. If I was ever associated with people that did things like this before working here, I am glad that I was never aware of it.
HIRING THE HANDICAPPED
One guy, that was hired, was so bad that the inmates ridiculed us officers severely for him being one of us. It was humiliating being in the same category as this guy. He walked like a combination of Igor and Frankenstein; very slowly, stiff, one leg sliding to try to catch up with the other, arms bent at the elbows with his hands hanging down limp wristed. He was slovenly and inattentive. He was constantly chewing gum. He couldn’t answer questions. There was dead silence before anything stumbled out of his mouth. There was no light on upstairs. When you looked into his eyes, no one was home. This is not a place to be employing the physically or mentally handicapped; and this guy was both.
Whoever hired this guy should’ve been fired. Was this some kind of a cruel joke? If he had to go through the same procedures that I did in order to get hired, how did he ever wind up here? The incompetence of some of those employed by the DOC was blatantly obvious with this guy being hired.
Doofus was going through the academy and was sent to my block for “On the Job Training.” He was so bad that I called training and asked what was going on with this guy and why he was still here. They told me that they were frustrated too. They had tried to get rid of him, but weren’t allowed to.
There was one instance involving an Associate Warden. This AW was in my block one day when this embarrassing new hire from the academy was at the desk area with another new hire from his academy. I was working the desk. She asked the other guy a question. He answered it well. She asked Doofus the same question. After a long pause, he parroted the other guys answer. She asked the other guy another question and then asked Doofus the same question. Again, the long pause followed by the parroted answer. What! Were these guys’ clones? She seemed to be catching on. She asked Doofus the next question first. He couldn’t answer. He was lost. He was in “Never Never Land.” This question had nothing to do with what he knew about the job. It was a personal question and he couldn’t answer it. He paused and did not answer. He just stood there in silence. I’ve actually worked with mentally challenged people that were more competent than this guy. She asked the other officer the same question. He answered right away. Then Doofus spoke up and parroted the same answer.
You would’ve thought the AW would’ve realized this guy to be incompetent and oust him right there. It didn’t happen.
The lady that coordinates the training for Stillwater and did a lot of the training came down to my cellblock and told me she needed help. She told me that they were frustrated. They had tried to get rid of this guy, but weren’t allowed to. She needed more documentation of this guy’s incompetence and inability to perform the functions necessary to do the job. I told her that I could easily provide it. She asked if I would write a letter that they could use to help get rid of him. I responded eagerly to the affirmative.
I wrote a letter and gave it to her. The letter would have to be placed in his file. If he wasn’t terminated and did anything wrong, this letter could be produced to verify the incompetency of the institution by not terminating this person. The honchos need documentation of everything. Why? CYA; that’s right!
He was gone.
Even though he was gone, the damage was done. Inmates used what they saw of this guy to tell to us that the DOC hired the retarded, and we were one of them. We couldn’t deny it. We were insulted by someone like this ever stepping foot in this place representing