Last Post: 9:42:44pm, 02/04/2018
Is your jail direct supervision or old school blocks? I'm assuming direct supervision, since you mentioned pods.
I worked in a county jail for a little over a year. Then I got hired in LE and left, but I still miss the jail. (I left there almost 11 years ago.) I never thought I would enjoy working in the jail, but it was actually somewhat fun. I didn't actually apply for the jail, but for a county dispatch position. The county needed people in the jail badly though. They asked if I would consider it instead. I just wanted a foot in the door, so I jumped on it.
My experience was pretty different from yours. Rape was a very real thing, and consensual sex, too. It wasn't uncommon for inmates to throw urine or feces, and they never got much of a punishment for it. And they loved flooding their cells, either by overflowing their toilets or by busting off the sprinkler heads on the fire suppression system. There was even a plan to murder me and rape my (female) partner, and that never even resulted in charges. Frustrating, yes, but the court system where I work is stupidly pro-inmate.