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There are stories I will tell you about that would be more believable if told by someone other than who it happened to. But seeing as how they happened to me, I am the only one with the accurate information involving situations that were one on one between me and someone else. And believe me when I say some of these things seemed unbelievable to me at the time too.

You will realize that I am not a clone of anyone. You will see run on sentences and sentence fragments, but that's who I am. Not a run on sentence or a sentence fragment, but different and really not liking a lot of the rules that force us to do what we don't want to do; someone with a different kind of a mind; someone with the correct dysfunctions to be able to survive a job like being a corrections officer; someone who is stepping into a different world every day that is extremely dysfunctional.

Making you aware of why and how I am different will require me to gradually inform you of things from my past that have made me who I am today. I had hoped to not give up so much of myself, but it is the only way that you will be able to understand my approach to this job and why I did things the way I did them. Normally, I would be extremely guarded about letting anyone so far into my mind, but these books, will probably never get published anyway. If they do get published, by that time, I'll probably be dead or close to it, so it won't matter much.

A friend of mine thought it was cool when I was doing standup comedy. We'd meet people and he'd say, "This is Dave Basham. He's a standup comedian." Once I started working in the prison, comedy wasn't the coolest thing about me anymore. His introduction of me changed to, "This is Dave Basham. He's a prison guard in Stillwater Prison."

People think they want to hear stories of what happens inside those prison walls. The problem is how you tell them about what happened. Even some of my hard core buddies would cringe and say, "Why did you tell me that?" "Hey, you asked!" I found out that most people don't really want to know the details of what happens. Most can handle a sanitized version, but not the graphic details. When I tell you of these incidents, I will make them as palatable as possible, but some things could turn your gut no matter how much creative phrasing I inject.