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One of the things I remember the most was the influx of 90 day newcomers. They would all come on a Monday in large shipments. They also had the retraining brigade then, don't know if they still have it or how long they had it even. They'd serve their 90 days kinda like being in basic again. Then they'd be shipped off to their new assignment.

As for fraternization, my immediate supervisor (female) was fired for fraternizing with an inmate. She would send us out of the office on some pretense and well...she got caught. That was an uproar to be sure.

It was definately an interesting place to work for a young, somewhat naive, girl!

Karen,

While I was at the DB you needed to have a minimum of 5 years to be confined there. I know what you mean about the 90 day wonders though, thats what we called guys with 5 years who got minimum custody right off the bat.

Also, everyone who was confined there had been sentenced to a punitive discharge (99% dishonorable)and were not returning to duty.

Thats a familiar and funny story about your boss. You know exactly what I am talking about. I was never lucky enough to be assigned to a work detail that had females on it. I'm sure it's just as well though. When caught, the guys would lose all their good time and custody and be in the hole for 6 months and have loss of privileges after that for 30 days or so. I never met one guy who said it was worth it.

The warped thing is that the punishment for sexual misconduct with a female was harsher than if you were to commit sexual misconduct with another male inmate. It's almost as if they were promoting homosexuality. I guess it's easier for their egos to have inmates be homosexuals than to have their female guards banging convicts.