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The power went out in two cells next to each other on a Friday night. The captain directed the officer reporting the situation to put in a work order. This meant that an electrician would check out the problem on Monday.

The next day, Saturday, because of the perceived long delay in getting the power back on, we were forced to either move the inmates to different cells or just continue to have to deal with them being upset.

The electricians had explained to us that the most likely cause of power outage in a cell would be due to sparking. Sparking is when someone tries to create sparks off of an outlet to try to light a cigarette or to create some other type of a fire. They said that all cells were rewired with reset buttons and that whenever there was a power surge powerful enough to bypass the cell reset button, a stronger breaker in the tunnel underneath the cellblocks would be set off.

It is possible that inmates in both cells were sparking. However, there were times when power went out in one cell that it would go out in an adjoining cell.

The inmates in one of the cells were major trouble makers. I could definitely see them sparking and then bitching about having no power.

My solution; do just as the lieutenant said; wait until Monday. If they have to sit through a weekend with no power, because they were sparking or had altered some electronics, tough luck. Let them sit there. If they become disruptive, send them to the hole. This is not a hotel. They are not paying us. Tax payers are paying for their housing and for people to watch them. I could not begin to count how many times the power had legitimately gone out in places I have lived or worked and the problems it had caused. I just had to deal with it. Here, they created the problem themselves and get coddled.

An example of a sparking device found in a cell was a pencil that had two wires taped to the end of it.