My second day in Unit 2 started the same as the first except for the winter weather outside that was expected. We had out normal pre-shift lineup where we went over all the memo's and the happenings of the day. At the end we were all asked if we would be willing to stay over in case someone from 1st shift couldn't make it in. Since i could use the OT or the time off i volunteered. After that we all headed to our post.
Tonight i was in B-Block which i don't mind too much. I prefer to be in either Control Room or C-Block but i cant always get what i want. The inmates seemed to be much more calm today. Who knows for what reason but I'm not about to complain when they are quiet since it rarely happens. As soon as i get in to the block on my shift, i always make a round just to see whats going on. As i got up to the upper mezzanine, two of the older inmates stopped me and asked if i had served in the military and talked about the weather. When i told them i had not been the in the military, the commented on how young i looked. I always find this so funny that a 24 year old is "running" a prison block with 90% of the inmates being older than be by 20 years. I personally don't care that i look young. Its gotta be hard having a person that is sometimes 30-40 years younger than you telling you what to do.
Later on i had to get started on my cell searches. I honestly love doing searches, especially when i can find something. Just last week they found a cell phone in another unit, one that an officer had brought in. Not very smart on his part. I like doing cells more than i do bunks because the guys in cells have more stuff to look through and places to hide. Only thing were not allowed to look through/read is legal mail. Everything else is fair game. Normally depending on how much stuff is in the cell ill spend 15 minutes in there looking through it all. I open every book, magazine, folder, notebook and package to see whats inside. You look under thee bunk, under the mattress and inside the pillow case. You also make sure that they don't have any more clothes than what they are supposed to. In another Unit they also found a tooth brush that had been filed down to make a shank. Its crazy how creative these guys can be. After i took a few cardboard boxes out the searches were over. The rest of the night went by pretty fast and without anything major happening.
After i left the block i went to A-Section. It is by far the absolute easiest job in the entire unit. You do so little you wonder if its considered volunteer work and why your getting paid for it. The main job of the A-Section is to float around the the 2 blocks, relieve people if they need it and escort any inmates that need to be taken places after 8pm. Which in my Unit, there are only 3 people that go out at 9pm and 3 that go out at 4am. That's it! So needless to say i did a lot of nothing the last half of the night.
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