Rejecting employment with CalDORC!

For those job seekers who have sent me e-mail, in which you express that the information contained within this blog constituted a pivotal factor not to seek employment with CalDORC, I salute you.

To quote the slogan of a national financial institution, "There is more to life than money" and, while the California prison guards union has accomplished all within their legal power to negotiate favorable wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment for their membership, they have no authority in the selection process of the correctional managers and administrators who continually fail to execute the duties of their office.

While you would benefit from the prodigious successes of CCPOA, you would be working for individuals who, depending on who you ask, have developed a management style that exists somewhere between The Three Stooges and John Dillinger.

In a continuing validation of your decision, I offer you the following, as reported:

On 1-30-06 During the swing shift (Third Watch) a Female Sergeant was doing post checks at a dormitory facility within the CIM complex known as the Reception Center West (RCW).

As she arrived at Mariposa Hall (dorm setting) She began to receive "Cat Calls" from a group of white inmates and, as a result, the Sergeant ordered yard staff to assist with searching the dorm and doing strip searches of the inmates.

Additional staff arrived and began searching the bunks and checking all inmates housed in the unit for contraband. Some weapons were recovered from a couple of Hispanic Inmates who were transferred out of the unit.

At approximately 2045 hours an alarm sounded from Mariposa Hall, the White and Hispanic Inmates began fighting amongst themselves.

A code 3 response (assistance from other facilities within the CIM complex) was called for and within a short time order was restored to the unit.

Approximately 70 white and 80 Hispanics inmates were involved.

Apparently, the hispanics believed that the problem was caused by the white inmate's "cat calling" of the female Sergeant, thereby bringing unwanted attention to the unit. Hostile words were exchanged between the whites and the Hispanics prior to the alarm sounding.

West yard staff responded well and got the situation under control, no staff injuries were reported as of this writing. Several inmates received minor wounds.

It is further reported that three Correctional Officers, working within Mariposa Hall, utilized an outside window in the staff office as an escape route by exiting this window when the fighting began, thereby preventing injury and, possibly, death.

There is, currently, a construction project underway at the Reception Center West (RCW) to fence off the individual housing units, a project which, reportedly, will close off the escape routes for correctional staff facing these types of emergency situations. Informed sources state that there is a grievance addressing this issue on file, however, amazingly, it is being resisted at the Institutional level and is now under review in Sacramento.

These sources further state that, in the aftermath of the riot, in which "CN" gas was deployed, Correctional Officers, untrained in CN gas decontamination, were attempting to clean up the gas remnants while wearing paper smocks, hair-nets and gas masks. With this outfit, they would have been more at home serving limburger cheese in the chow hall than cleaning up a hazardous and toxic chemical.

Fortunately for those of you who have rejected the idea of employment with CalDORC, you will never get the dubious honor of receiving inane instructions from Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe.

More to come.

Lorraine Bradley
http://prisoncorruption.blogspot.com