The trained hating Cox is referring to is the process that all BOP personnel must go through at GLENCO, a BOP training facility in Georgia that teaches all its employees’s security and operations protocols. We inmates call GLENCO “hate school.”
Which brings me to another point. It was not accurate for USA Today to say that PHS workers aren’t trained in security work or that they can’t do such work. They learn at least the basics at GLENCO. The question is, is it appropriate to have trained medical personnel who have been hired for a specific purpose to then be used as security guards? Again, Jesse Cox.
“I won’t name names of institutions because I know better, but all I’m saying is that I have been sick, with a toe-nail hanging off my foot that required immediate medical attention because all federal prisons are diseased-ridden environments where MRSA is prevalent and antibiotics are rarely if ever given to us, if ever, and I couldn’t get shit because every single one in the medical department – and I mean everyone – was busy shaking down a unit in search of contraband. Probably an extra fucking apple stolen out of the chow hall.”
Ronald Coleman, a healthy convicted marijuana dealer who is a serving 262-month prison sentence, sees things a little differently.
“All correctional officers are are nothing more than high-dollar babysitters who either sit around on their asses feeding their fat faces like the cops on the street do, or they were bullied in school, or they’re just living miserable lives and they can’t wait to come to work so they can tear apart our cells and make us just as miserable as them,” Coleman says. “So it’s not like a nurse or a psychologist can’t do the same work as a guard does. I mean, I don’t even think you have to graduate from preschool to become a federal corrections officer, do you?”
Troy Hockenberry, a gun offender serving 120-months, thinks the USA Today piece “is a big deal but it’s not.”
“You have to put it all in prospective,” said Troy. “If we’re talking about non-trained prison workers working security posts in
prisons where there is absolutely nothing going on, like many of the camps, lows and medium-security prisons, then it’s different from USP’s (United States Penitentiary’s) or maximum-security prisons where thing are off the hook, In that case, there shouldn’t be nurses or secretaries or even women, if you ask me, working in the housing units around a bunch a violent offenders who have nothing to lose.”
Because the practice of using PHS officers as security officers has come to light, the USA Today reports that there is a discussion taking place inside the PHS whether or not a mass exodus from the BOP should occur.
“I hope not,” Ronald Coleman said. “We don’t want them to leave. We want them to dress in short, tight, skirts and we want them working all over the prison. It sure beats a bunch of fat dudes.”
Troy Hockenberry sums it up like this. “The biggest problem is prison health care in general and what is better for us. People out there don’t realize how fucked we get in here sometimes, of what its like being really sick or having a massive toothache and being told there is nothing they can do for us – and that includes PHS workers, who treat us equally bad.
“So if they do stay, ” Hockenberry said, “first and foremost, I would hope that someone could retrain them on how to treat a prisoner with respect and common decency, then retrain them on how to be health care providers. Because if you ask me, they all act like guards first.”
Article Appeared @http://www.gorillaconvict.com/2016/05/prisoners-think-prison-nurses-working-guards/