When I graduated from high school in Rochester, in 1965, I went to work for the Monroe County Department of Child Welfare. At the time, the building was on South Avenue, right next door to the old Monroe County Workhouse/Penitentiary, and on the other side of us was the Welfare Department and Surplus Food Office. Just a block away was Rochester Psychiatric Center. Those were the days...no politically correct terms to play with. Prior to my working for Corrections, I spent about 9 months working as a Safety Officer at Hutchings Psychiatric Center in Syracuse, NY. During that short time I had more scuffles with residents than I did in my 25 years with Corrections. I figured that if I was going to have to tussle with people, I might as well take the Correction Officer’s job, and be paid as a Grade 14, than as a Grade 9 Safety Officer.