For this Prison Librarian, there are three types of training: Library-Specific, In-House (tailored to the institution), and Basic, which every employee of the Department of Corrections must attend and which I have just completed my first two weeks out of three.
The first week was primarily Corrections basics, mostly based on department policy, sensitivity training, and “stress management”. Some good stuff, some really annoying stuff, but I both understand and appreciate the need for all employees to have a standard core to fall back on should something happen. Professionalism, Code of Conduct, Mission, Values, and how the rehabilitation procedure is supposed to work…yes, all us employees should probably know this.
This second week we got into the more “in-depth” stuff. Let me tell you, though, Constitutional Law and the rights of the offenders is not exactly the most exciting way to begin your week. The other things, which I’ll probably never use, came later. So, this week I learned how to cuff an offender two different ways, how much force I’m allowed to use in an emergency, how to do a frisk search, and how to proceed with a crime scene. I’m a librarian. I have my own CO. Chances are I’ll never have to use any of this. But whatever, it’s new info, so it’s interesting…and the hands-on stuff was wicked cool. (Prison hooch? Playing with real-live handcuffs? Oh yes.)
Anyway, I’ve been collecting Lessons of the Day, because the trainers say some truly wise/funny things about once a day. Thus:
- · Never come to work nekkid. (It’s Mid-Missouri, what can I say?)
- · Never give up your snitch.
- · Peace and Love and Hug a Thug
- · Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
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