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An inmate had his coat covering the bars on his door. This was not allowed, because by him doing this, we couldn’t see if he was up to anything.

I had spoken to this guy about this before, so I locked him in his cell for him to await a conversation about it with the lieutenant the next day.

Psycho LT had reamed me for not enforcing this before. Now that I knew how this was supposed to be enforced, I would always be enforcing it. I’m sure inmates never got jumped on as harshly as I did. Most inmates considered me a prick for enforcing it.

When I started working here, every cell had panels covering the cell bars except for a roughly two foot square space on the cell door at eye level. Shortly after an inmate had hung himself in one of the cells in the middle of the night, all of the panels were removed from all of the cells. This was done to supposedly prevent this from happening again. Actually, even without the panels covering the bars, no one would have found the guy hanging until they did the next round anyway. If someone really wants to kill themselves, they have plenty of time to be successful.