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There is an important thing to realize when reading this account of my experiences in this place. Part of my job was to observe and report. When I observed violations or potential problems, my responsibility was to report it. That was the end of my responsibility.

More often than not, after I turned in my report, I did not know what happened after that. If my report caused someone to go to segregation, I would see them get hauled out, but rarely would I know what happened after that. If a deal was struck, I would not know. If they were shipped to Oak Park, I would not know. Some of these things, I could've found out if I had the time to dig or had better connections with officers that worked the areas where this information was easily accessible.

The amount of work I did, time spent manning my posts, helping offenders with their problems, supervising the swamper crew, trying to get the block in order and things repaired, and so on; filled my day and then some.

It was a challenge just to get out of there at the end of the day. Many days, I was the last one to leave from my shift. I wouldn't submit overtime unless it was someone else or the institution causing me to stay late. If I stayed late because of being aggressive at doing my job well, that wasn't normal here, so I didn't submit an overtime slip. It was easier to get out if I didn't take time to write up a slip. After over 8 hours at this job, I just wanted to get out.

What happened after writing a report was none of my business. Some people checking over this book and giving me their input stated they wanted more than just what I wrote about each incident. More often than not, I did not know or care. My job was done; as far as that incident was concerned.

There were general conclusions to most violations where the inmate was taken to segregation. Most were handled by investigation officers that would offer the violator a certain number of days in segregation. The number of days was standard per type of violation. The worse the violation and the greater the number of violations, the more segregation time they were charged with. The inmate would have to sign a paper accepting the segregation time, which was an admission of guilt, or contest it and ask for a hearing. Rarely did any of them ever contest what I had written. They would generally wind up back in my block when their time was served. They would either behave, make sure I didn't catch them again or if they did it again and I caught them, go back to segregation for another series of days there.

If their violation was extreme, they may be sent to Oak Park Heights. Violations like this would be things like them assaulting someone viciously, assaulting an officer, trying to escape, and the such.