Odds and ends

This will be various things that don't deserve much time but were interesting to me then. The OJT jail which I refer to as DS if you recall kept the Inmates in file two by two totally quiet. It was nice moving them around this way. GH on the other hand was like just try to keep them on one side of the hallway. Speaking of Hallways. When Industry (where they worked) let out it was wall to wall convicts!! Officers would be right in the middle observing so nothing would jump off without someone seeing it. I remember once asking this Sgt. if I was suppose to be doing something while standing there. And he says to me you are doing a good job keep it up. I found out later he was relatively new as a Sgt. at GH. So he really didn't know either. Joking around was common place. I remember once some Officer put a new recruit up to going to the Box and asking them for their Inmates that were signed up to go to the movies. Pretty funny if you ever worked the box or can imagine it, they only get out for one hour a day. They never get to see a movie or a TV for that matter. But he was new and still learning and there was no harm done. I also remember this one Officer who used to climb up the fencing material inside some of the blocks to try and catch Inmates up to no good. That was pretty funny. I used to like working the box. We'd get all of the work done and have the rest of the day to do whatever. As long as nothing happened that is or course. We'd play catch with a football (inside) play guitar, etc.. whatever we felt. So it wasn't always tension working this job. I later won a bid to work there full time as the relief. Before I got a chance to work the job I received my transfer. One weekend I reported to work and for a job that day was given the outside garage.. I got the most key rings I ever had to carry. I was to report out there and if they needed a vehicle I would be there to get one for whoever would be taking the trip. I think I also had to run the visitors for the Annex out to the Annex from the main gate. That was one easy job compared to others I had on the weekends. One job I always hated on weekends were the visiting room jobs. They had two. New and Old visiting room. The old one was better than the new one. You pretty much spent your days trying to keep Inmates off there girl friends/ wives. Really crappy work!! Another was the main gates going to either side of the jail from the main admin. area. It was really busy due to visits really pick up at GH on the weekends. This guy runs all the gates but the hard part is he also has to keep track of the Inmates going to visits. That job was probably the most ridiculously hectic job I had while there. People would get ticked off cause you would be busy and not notice them at the gates. One gate at a time is all that's allowed open so pushing buttons and marking Inmate ID's (a way set up to keep track where they were visiting) over and over and over until your shift was over. Every now and then, the facility would have special event days. They were called something like "San Juan Batista day" amongst others. Things like that. They would have a special area set up for the Inmates and we'd have to report to the rear gate and process them all through. It was wicked busy most of the time. Once for one of these special events I thought I got lucky and got assigned a tower post. Man that day sucked big time. Talk about boredom. I knew a older guy who had worked a tower post on the Midnight shift for like 19 years. I don't know how he could have ever did it. I couldn't do that job for one shift without going buggy!! Enough for one day check back later..