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Your assigned working area dictated the kinds of violations that would need to be enforced.

When I first started and was assigned to towers a lot, there was not much contact with inmates, so report writing was infrequent. When it was necessary to write a report or inform someone of a problem, it had more to do with equipment, alarms or activity you observed in the yard from up above in the tower.

When I was on First Watch, the reports had more to do with someone in their cell disturbing others or health issues.

Posting up in the dining hall had to do a lot with inmates being in unauthorized areas. It was necessary for them to have their ID’s clearly displayed, so we would know by their color code if they were where they belonged.

In the cell halls, unauthorized area violations were huge. Policies dictating what was in their cell and where it was or wasn’t allowed were huge.

If the cell hall was a working block with the inmates out in industry, it would be fairly calm while they were gone, but when they came back and all of them were allowed to be out of their cells to socialize and take care of their business, everything under the sun could go on. Also, with inmates coming in from industry, there is a big problem with smuggling in weapons.

B-West double bunking problems were a whole other can of worms. That was addressed in the chapter on B-West.