Current Events > It must be miserable to work in a prison isn't it?

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Being a prisoner is one thing, but you ever think about what it's like to actually work in such a dehumanizing place? What must that do to a person's psyche?

I mean someone has to do the job of guarding the prison, but it must be so draining and exhausting in every possible way.

The people who guard prisons want to guard prisons
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@Burgess

It probably takes a strong personality and stomach to handle that kind of responsibility

Noumas posted...

It probably takes a strong personality and stomach to handle that kind of responsibility

True, it takes a toll. There are good people working for the prison industrial complex
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Noumas posted...

It probably takes a strong personality and stomach to handle that kind of responsibility

officers and guards put they're life on the line every day to protect the general public from those criminals who want to do harm.
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depends.
Prison guards at scandinavian countries have it good. Sometimes they even have friendly interaction with the prisoners.
Prison guards at third world country , however...

My dad was a counselor at a youth prison. He was really serious about rehabilitation and making sure that the wards left as better people, but things always get rough, especially when rival factions are confined in the same space.

I still remember days of him coming home smelling of mace and sporting fresh bruises.
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