Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Becoming a prison gaurd

The Forest Service in our area relies on the modern version of the old fashioned chain gang.  Today Kadizzle will  head to Globe to become certified to work with inmates.  Low grade inmates do so much around here that the place could hardly function without them.  Inmates do the garbage cut the weeds, dig the ditches and fix many things.

So today Kadizzle will learn all the rules for working with people who made a mistake and got caught. The class should be over by noon, so perhaps an update will be in order.  Yesterday Kadizzle was talking with the guard who comes from the jail with these guys.  The guard is a very big guy who used to be a professional cage fighter.  He looks like he could give anyone who needed it an adjustment.  The guard looks like he may be of Mexican heritage, he is about six five and 325, and in good shape. He said one of the prisoners called him a taco eater. This did not go well with him and he had to restrain himself from adjusting the guy, but he took the high ground and is going to recommend the offended stay home and not come out to play. Home in this instance will be the cooler. Sad North Dakota does not have a program like this.  The offenders actually like to get out and work. They work hard. They get paid fifty cents and hour and do a lot to make these parks function.

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