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As an officer in this place, I heard a lot of lies. When I instructed academies, I stressed to them that no matter what happens, what boner you pull, NEVER LIE. This is a place where it is impossible to train officers on every situation that may develop. What is correct to you, may not be correct to your superior. Most can accept that, but they cannot accept not being able to trust you.

Officers do expect inmates to lie to them, but it is a certain type of lie that would get them in trouble with me. If their lie was to try to lead me to a wrong conclusion or get someone in trouble that did nothing, that kind of lie would make me aggressive in writing them up. If they were trying to play me for a fool, that was another type of lie that would make me write up their violations.

Lies I could accept were lies that they had to tell me. For instance, if they were in a fight and needed medical help. The inmate code would not let them tell me who hurt them. They would have to tell me that they fell down or some such thing. That is an expected and necessary lie for them to tell me so they wouldn't get attacked again later. Generally if they had been assaulted, their business with the assailant had been concluded.

I would find it difficult to write up an inmate for a minor violation that they were straight up about and sincerely told me it wouldn't happen again. I found so many violations of so many types, that any that I could justify not writing was a blessing.