I-Team: Inmate body underscores staffing woes in Georgia prison system
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2022
- By Randy Travis
Published July 15, 2022
WAYCROSS, Ga. - Cell phone video shot inside Ware State Prison in Waycross, Georgia provides a stark example of how few employees are actually on the job these days.
The video showed a dead prisoner slumped over a cell block railing, while others complain he’s been there for hours because no officer is on duty in their section of the prison.
"No officer has came back in this building," said the anonymous inmate who narrates the video. "Ain’t nobody in over three hours. We have an inmate here that is dead …. hanging right here for the last two hours at least. Two and a half hours. Dead."
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You know things are bad when the inmates are reaching out to the media
wow true wild
I heard the media is actually worse than the guards!
They have a rough job considering 75% of the country hates their guts!
That part smh 🤦🏽♀️
@H B such a miserable mindset. You can get help for that you know lol
@@Ashley-uq9sf THERE WILL BE BREAK OUTS SOON 🔜 LOCK 🔒🔐 YE DOORS.
My brother was a corrections officer in South Carolina after leaving the Navy. He said the people working in the prison were worse than the inmates.
It definitely changes you as a person and there is no relief
…lol… imagine having that job. Having to deal with the scum of society. The worst of the worst. That’s gonna have a negative effect on one’s mindset.
There’s actually more mercy in executing these guys instead of sending them up. All they do is become worse. I know I know, they should suffer for what they’ve done, but at what cost? Who’s actually paying for all these people in these
institutions.
See the famous “prison experiment” even the scientist running it admitted to “losing himself” in his role. It’s a psychological thing- I doubt anyone is immune to the effects. Never marry one of these men/women either. They take that mindset home and have some of the worst stats on divorce and domestic violence. There’s a real science to it-
Oh well they shouldn't have did what they did. ITS JAIL
Believe it
If it wasn’t for the cell phones that the inmates had in custody then we would not even know about a deadman hanging for three hours
fact
Well he in there for murder he should have been on display a little longer lol
@@tiffanysgottimetoday4589 if that’s the truth then let ‘em hang. trust when i say i seen a few get butchered, i’ll step over them eating a ramen…… but i have no time today lol
We don’t even have the proper staffing outside the prisons.
Oh my goodness wow! 3 whole hours
If it wasn't for cell phones the Georga corrections would still be lying to the public
I can work at a warehouse with 6 months experience for $18/hr. Why would I risk my life for $17/hr.
FACTS … it’s 22$ now tho
I think the benifits are better, and some make $$$ in undercover schemes
The overtime.
For everyone asking how do inmates have cell phone? Guess what, the correction officers bring them in. It's a dirty game.
Well if a correction officer is bringing cell phones into the inmates that correction officer should lose his job
It's staff, cos not the only one that work there. Nurse, Dr's, lawyers, cooks maintenance workers
@@Slites195 Exactly! You see what I mean about it being a dirty game.
@@marvinmorquecho yeah they should do time as well and I heard yes some guards do bring in stuff they should not be bringing in for the inmates
@@marvinmorquecho and I know some guards bring in drugs for the inmates
This is why I don’t commit ANY crimes, I’m definitely NOT fit for prison!
Right ! same here...im 57 years old and never been to prison...... thanks to TMH
@Jake if you DON’T hush!😂
Im finna take yo booty
@babaghorghori 😂😂
No one is it’s not human life
In Tennessee, they lock up one correctional officer with 180-200 inmates. All the officers have are a radio and keys; no weapons for defense.And with them always being short-handed, the officers are forced to work a double; 16 hours no lunch/no breaks.
Gee...I wonder why they're understaffed?🤔
I like how the Dept of Corrections replied, "Well that body was not hanging there as long as you say it was". It's tantamount to a restaurant telling you, "that roach was only crawling in your pasta for a few seconds, so we did nothing wrong".
@@TopVillain that part
@@TopVillain what a disgusting mentality
@@TopVillain I care.
@@TopVillain but we should, they are released back into our communities. To date our daughts, sons. We need them rehabilitated & healthy. Can you imagine monkey pox in prison. Some are in there innocent. Minor crimes, ....over crowded Back into our community. Those civil law suits our our $ that could be used to make things better. For homeless, guards and innocent program. Class in prisons, classes out her for skills...Govt, keep their crack pipes. You feel me bro...the big pic....we should see the forest for the trees. 1 may come out like an animal worst than he went in...and mug/ kill me or you. Or someone you love.
@@TopVillain unfortunately prison isn't time out. It's effectively an underworld to make connections and smuggle things.
If it was more locked down then it'd be time out proper.
18 dollars an hour?!? Chi-fil-a pays the same AND we get free Chi-fil-a food.
And off on Sundays.
Yea I was shocked at how low the pay is,…$18.00 an hour baby sitting angry dangerous lifers who have got nothing to loose (I’m sure A lot of people are like no thanks)
Chick-fil-A only paid$ 13:75 in Maryland that's awesome for the driver.
🤣
Right and they should be ashamed for those low wages. Smh no wonder they don’t want to work.
My dad died in that prison last year. They were horrible and gave me no answers. My dad wrote me a week before his death telling me he wasn't getting his medicine and was badly sick. This is horrible and not okay. They are still Human beings and have families that have to deal with the loss
This is so tragic and it pisses me off soooo bad. I served 20 years in Georgia state prison. The public has no idea some of the stuff going on with the inmates or the guards...sorry about your loss
I'm a former corrections officer from I would like to speak out on the fact that more and more people are getting hired for the position but they cannot seem to keep people there for even a year before they quit. Had 15 people leave my facility just while was gone in training. We do not fill safe anymore just like the prisoners we gard.
You were a CO and can't even spell "guard" lol.
@@americanmade-1 Was in a hurry on mobile lol
I can tell you are a corrections officer! YOU CANT SPELL TO SAVE YOUR LIFE!!! 🤦♂️
@@americanmade-1 what does being a co got to do with spelling a word weirdo
I respect it
Those jobs are DANGEROUS too. I had 2 relatives who were CO supervisors and both got those jobs straight out of the military. They worked 10 yrs for the prisons. Resigned on January 2nd. You will get threats on a daily basis and never, ever turn your back on an inmate.
Well your family members treated those inmates like animals and not humans
Both my sons a prison guards
It’s only dangerous when staff is not FAIR, FIRM, and CONSISTENT. I was a CO for Florida Dept. of Corrections ( a female in a male facility) and had nothing but utmost respect from inmates. When working with staff who don’t love what they do and don’t practice that formula (fair, firm, & consistent) which is taught during the academy, yep it will be dangerous. The BIGGEST PROBLEM of my tenure with DOC was the people I worked with because they were not FAIR, FIRM, or CONSISTENT so I chucked the ✌🏾and found me another career path. Inmates were my least worry. At the end of the day they are human and still though locked up, they have rights and allowing an inmate to expire the way in which this one did, is completely unacceptable, he wasn’t even in his cell. It suppose to be at least 2 officers per housing unit as well as an assigned Sargent, and mainly a officer is suppose to be in the officer station at all times so somebody really dropped the ball and I hope his family gets justice.
No it’s mostly dangerous for officers who are disrespectful for the most part. Inmates are adults they know your just doing your job. Majority won’t make that job hard at all. it’s the officers who abuse their authority who end up in dangerous positions. Oh and the officers who want to be too friendly. a balance between doing your job and having basic respect for other humans . Other officers are officers worst enemy in the prison system. But at the same time always be aware where u are.
@@myraparham8864 I spent 5 yrs in the Mass DOC for some poor decisions I made in my early 20s. Everything you said is right on the money ! If one is given respect 99% of the time they will also return respect.
Who tf wants to work in the worst environment there is? No damn body. That's who.
So why apply in the first place?
This is probably a direct result of firing employees that wouldnt take the jab.
While in college I did an internship at the old DC jail that used to be next to RFK stadium. One day it occurred to me that I was locked in and largely unprotected until someone let me out. Never considered a career in corrections after that.
This is bad. And they not paying enough for people to work there. Need to be paying 30.00 a hour or more to deal with that dangerous situation.
Well the people that run the place refuse to say anything, so someone needs to start there. Accountability is important..
@@indexoptions - Private prisons only care about profits.
I make 30$ a hr as CNA. And don’t risk my life they need to make more!!
I make $35 doing construction, they need like $50 😂
The only reason why they're even able or at least doing the pay raise as they are is because they're paying for one officer to do the work of three officers per building
Yup exactly. I worked short staff in a nursing home many a day and got the same pay doing twice the work. Only one job offered "short pay" and that was like a dollar extra an hour so I can just imagine how the prisons get down
YEAP!! Exactly why I QUIT and now they want to pay officers what they deserve … I was thinking about going back but idk GLAD the inmates are finally telling the truth about what really goes on
Hey man you must be a C/O that’s exactly what they are doing at least at the prison I work at.
I was a state C/O for 10 years. We had a motto, "You don't have to be crazy to work in a prison...but it helps." This report doesn't surprise me at all. We were under so much stress, inside the wire and out. Inside, you stress the obvious. On the "outs," you stress running into a former inmate, sometimes when you're with your family. You're strapped, yes, but the last thing you want is an armed confrontation in front of your loved ones. Then there's the thug-hugging administration, scuzzy partners, and other additives adding to the stress. I've seen more than enough retired C/Os die from some illness or medical event, less than 1 year after retirement. That's why I left after 10 years. That wasn't gonna be me.
There is no easy answer to this issue. Too many of us formers, tell too many tales of what it's really like working in the big houses.
I agree with all the commenters saying other jobs pay the same or more, for jobs you won't get killed at. Who in their right mind would work in a prison for the same wages as a fast food joint?
By the by, Georgia ain't the only state with this problem...believe that.
I hope young brothers in Atlanta are watching where they're might be headed to!
They don't care brother
It's not just Atlanta
That'll just make them avoid prison at all costs, not to not do crime.
@@stacynewton34 Atlanta have more crime than other lil small towns in Georgia. Augusta, Columbus, Macon, and Savannah together don't have nearly as much crime as metropolitan Atlanta. Fulton county, Dekalb county, Clayton county, Cobb County and Gwinnett county have way more incarcerated people for violent crimes. That's Atlanta metropolitan.
That's horrible, no medical assistance. Not every prisoner is violent. They are still human. Smh
Not all are human
Facts
True, they are humans. Humans who murder, rape, assault and hurt others. Even if they not violent, that does not mean they dud not hurt the innocent. A shoplifter is not violent yet their actions are 'hurting' the shop and the staff that works them different way. Vandalizing the wall is the same, they 'hurting' the owner of said wall. Violent or non-violent, they hurting the innocent in one way or another.
Fuc that its prison not a retirement home
Non violent criminals don't end up in prison very often.
I worked in juvenile corrections for 3 years and quit just before the pandemic. It was a super stressful job and dangerous. Hours sucked, coworkers sucked, supervisors sucked, inmates were scum of the earth unless they were actually trying to turn their life around. I can't imagine how much worse it is for adult prisons especially after covid.
Staff are overburdened and underpaid. Some of them are corrupt. The whole system needs to be reformed but it probably won't.
Its a zoo.Everyone in the prison system runs there own race from the Govenor down to CO's nurses & pychs to the inmates.Staff see improper procedures by other staff & they turn a blind eye instead of reporting it.Exactly the same as the criminals.But they are criminals,you the authorities or the gatekeepers that protect us from them & rehabilitate them you have to follow the law & not get down in the jungle with them in getting a free for all.
I agree and I quit after I received the highest evaluation writing letter to head of DOC in Atlanta. Results was warden ordered not to let me in to return my uniforms or paper work. Corrupt is an understatement when I left. Supervisors for zero professional reasons violent themselves. Phillip State Prison.
@@stephenmitchell3569 sounds like the warden didnt want you to see something.You may have missed it whilst working there.Procedure is not followed at all times & staff that notice dont dare report it or the whistle blower will be in a whole lot of trouble by his corrupt fellow staff.Decent staff leave all together or turn a blind eye.Everyone has bills to pay.Safety is imperative in the workplace.When co-workers are running wild in a prison its time to find another line of work.
The scum of the earth is the guards what are u talking about,u do know it's a saying if u want to see scum or the worst people just go to the jail or prison at shift change
@@dabusiness5368 Yeah all those inmates are just in there for being great people.
Prison and jail officers should be paid more like $25 an hour. Mcdonald's is paying $12+ here in Ky. I can't imagine dealing with inmates for only $6 more an hour. And yes I know they get double retirement but how many ever last that long?
$25? They get paid like $40+ over here in Nor Cal
@@zachjenkins354, I would hope so. The cost of living here is much lower. A 150k house here is 450k there. The $25 suggestion is a low-end suggestion for my area
True most prisons pay $25 overtime included +senior officer's back stabbing new recruits by not doing things properly but show favoritism with inmates.
It's a high turnover rate. You're basically doing a bad job if at least a few of the inmates don't try to make your life miserable. Where I was I think I was making roughly $20/hr and that was basically the cap without going into a supervisor type role. Granted this was before the recession but it obviously wasn't enough to keep my interest. Hopefully they pay better now.
Who wants to deal with cleaning after degenerates, searching them, that crap stays with you. Such a negative environment definitely changes your outlook. Theoretically a lot of these inmates shouldn’t even be breathing, their continuance to draw breath is what perpetuates criminality to the degree we see
The shady reporters asking how cellphones are getting in when it’s the damn officers bringing them in!! Also without the cell phones, the outside world would never know how dirty it is 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳
Yes you are absolutely right.
No one wants to work that job.
@@troberson3075
True
ATL local news is really good but at the same time they got a racial bias.
No one to work a dangerous,stressful, and of course scrutinized job for that little pay. Here in the Bay In and Out pays more than a prison guard
Do us a favor and stay in the bay
The guy has a cell phone and he couldn't notify someone earlier? He was able to video the dead guy. He couldn't make a phone call? Weird.
He didn’t care to call because he’s not suppose to have one…..
Was he supposed to call 911 lmao.
How the hell you got a cell phone n. Jail. Man murder n hanging 0ver. The pole sad.
@@carlwitherspoon7338 The CO's bring them in. Just like the drugs, liquor, women officers selling sex, you name it. You think american cops can't be bought? Think again.The system itself is all about money. Convicts smart enough to pay their lawyer and not use legal aid walk scott free everytime.
@@MiaMya396 exactly
I was at Telfair for a year and a half in 2011 and 2012. watched one confrontation in the yard One inmate stabbed another, the inmate that was stabbed retaliating chasing the other inmate around the correctional officer, no correctional officer tried to intervene it was comical and terrifying at the same time also Witness inmate getting stabbed in the chest that had less than 6 weeks left over a cell phone that inmate died if I remember correctly he was only 22 years old, I can promise you Department of Corrections will do something about that cell phone quicker than they will do anything to help an inmate or an officer
"Why didn't they say something about the dead body earlier"? THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE PHONES AND HE MAY NOT HAVE WANTED HIS PHONE TAKEN AWAY.
As a former federal DOJ employee at several prisons, I can attest the pay does not meet the risk. Severely underpaid and let's not talk about safety. Contraband is a ongoing issue. State prisons are even worse. Obviously, some leadership believes $18 and change an hour is practical. You will continue to have these problems unless someone gets real and increase pay to $25+ hour starting pay with better benefits. Only administrators and CEO level make real money.
18 dollars where? Im in LA and make 15, 18 dollars is only 3 dollars above minimum wage. Maybe in rural arkansas or ohio can you make a killing with 18 but in bigger cities? Thats chump change
@@candideggplant1575 North Carolina is at $18hr. When I lived in Cali (Kern County Bakersfield/Fresno), state COs were paid more and overtime is where they did well.
So very true. Not to mention all of the rights afforded the inmates!!!! Staff shortage in corrections is rampant across the country, not just Georgia……
Cell phones and drugs are everywhere
I agree. I'm a former TDCJ Correctional officer. I worked in numerous Max prisons, including death Row. The way society is now, there's no way I'd work in a prison these days.
It’s no excuse to let someone die because you’re not getting paid enough. I was once a CO for FDOC and when you sign and agree to take on this position, you know the RISK and you know the HOURLY RATE; so a decision should be made at that time if this is the career path one wants to take. This is not acceptable on NO level, and anyone who decides to take a career for just money, and not for the sake of wanting to enforce law, or loving what they do, should NEVER accept the position. Inmates, though they may have committed crimes, are still human and NO amount of money should stop one from doing the job they signed on to do. I pray for his family and pray they get justice.🤦🏾♀️
Now they bout to do a shakedown and take everybody phones 🤦🏿♂️
Good
Corrections jobs take an incredible toll on those who do it. Always short staffed, forced overtime, missed holidays, missed time with your children, low wages, constantly knowing you could be attacked at any moment, working overnight, overcrowding, and the list could go on. Then management is generally not on your side and will burn staff at the drop of the hat.
Then you have to worry about your family when you are at work, because there are more hardened criminals on the street than in prison. And those people can and will, if they want, find out where you live.
Basically it simply isn't worth it. The upsides don't come close to the the downsides, and until those in charge decide to take care of their staff this will not get better.
Low wages? COs get great pay and benefits. If you're scared, it's not for you.
I'm always amazed when I see officers from the country jail down the street leaving in uniform and filling up their car, shopping, etc. Surely they're wise enough to know they're a target?
@@americanmade-1 Where I live the pay is good for Deputies, but not for DOC officers. If you aren't scared or at least aware of the ever present danger then you are just plain dumb.
@@americanmade-1 lol 55k to work in a prison wow life changing 🤡
But it's not like that for low I.q. people you see , that's who that job is for.
I would figure it's a stressful job!! You are dealing with difficult people being staff or inmates. I couldn't do it myself!! Prayers prayers!
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES TURN DOWN PERFECT APPLICANTS IN GA. I KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE
They want people who dont give a damn.
@@travistucker4067 correct and I interviewed like a gave a big damn with the qualifications. GA Department of corrections is a crooked self serving system and if you interviewed like your going to go by the SOPs and make waves they don't even look twice at you.
Mental health needs to be a priority & provided for all.
"There's a problem, throw tax money at it!"
The feds needs to step in and shut down the Georgia prison system immediately
They would have to go to Mississippi and Alabama,....first.
@@karo2950 fr tho those needs to be shutdown and rebuilt and reformed I live in Tennessee and some of our prison are are nowhere near as how bad those are not the violence part but it's the living conditions
Let me add Ny,too.
@@karo2950 you know something. im in alabama. fam on both sides. its not pretty.
And send them all to your neighborhood.
Don’t wanna get stabbed in prison? Don’t go to prison!
Inmates with phones 😂
One of the biggesr issues in corrections is their gang like tendencies. No one wants a high risk job where there are unspoken rules about how to act as to be negligent and cruel but not get in trouble with the law. We didn't come into security expecting to be hazed and tested for loyalty amongst peers.
Thanks for saying this. I'm a young female who started COTA in AZ a few years back and I kept hearing about this and decided it wasn't for me. Integrity is so important to me and I just want to work my job to the best of my ability without having to watch my back for both inmates and my peers who may sabotage and undermine me because I won't cosign nefarious activities.
These agencies need to clean house AND increase pay and safety measures and that will attract better quality candidates. They won't do that though because most of those old heads entire lives are built around the corruption-it's generational.
It's so retarted.
A sign of weak people too attached to their identity.
At the end of the day, inmates are human just like everyone else. A correction officer told me in 1992 that "there are two types of people, the caught and the uncaught." This was at Rogers State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia. Everyone has broken the law one way or another.
You pay $18 a hour and wonder why you can’t get people to work in that environment?
In Georgia many people are prosecuted by misconduct and we can't judge people based on what they are convicted for.
Remember the State of Georgia killed Johnny Cochran because of his famous statement " I can get 90% of the prisoners in Georgia convictions overturned."....Georgia is a modern day slavery state that uses the judicial system to obtain their slaves..They don't pay inmates, they make inmates work County jobs for the reason of paying their debts to society, Georgia has one of the worst sentencing guidelines in the world...You have inmates that have done 30 years in prison and then the GDOC decides to release them when they are 70 years old...What the hell a 70 year old man just released from prison after being incarcerated 30 years going to do once he's back in society?
100% facts
@@marcusmckoy6461 you lost me at “paying prisoners”… how about making them work & send ALL $$ to their victims?
@@dawnhenderson2333 Ever hear of a Victimless crime?
I guess that's why all these Soros☠ bought DA's aren't even bothering to charge people anymore😧🤬🤬
They need to let up on hiring requirements. I'm a felon, I been to prison. In my very early 20s. I haven't even spoke to a cop in well over a decade, I'm 36 now, and they wouldn't hire me. Even with a 70% job vacancy, stupid.
That is facts. You would help reform
It doesn't make any sense, if you did your time, it should be over in a legal sense, if they were non life taking crimes, or didn't involve rape/abuse of women or children... They should be given free housing for 3 year's with, job training and job placement, a supportive living check for at least 2 years and a clean record, unless they committed very serious crimes..... So that they don't have to be stressed and/or homeless (a recipe for returning to back to prison) we all make mistakes, it's just some get caught. 😉
@@LionIron447 eloquently and accurately stated. Smh.
You may be the one to smuggle something. Can't take that chance. Good call on them not hiring you.
@@LionIron447 you can't be a corrections officer with a felony on your record
This has been a problem. I've been inside prisons where once you're in, you are totally on your own. The rule was "Ain't no guards on duty to come save you. So, act accordingly"!
Well give some of us who caught a felony young and ignorant and have changed completely around a chance at a job we know so much about
This is such a fact
This is so true, I've never thought of this. They won't do it because it will work.
I know they r flipping their rooms upside down looking for that phone though smh
Walmart is paying 18.50 for night shift so for a PRISION guard to get the same pay as someone stocking shelf’s is crazy to me
Man I'm so glad and sad at the same time.. because this is happening all over the country in county jails and prisons systems. Light needs to be shed on this type of negligence!!! This is wrong. no matter the skin color!!!!! FIX IT
The only people that can put there hand over the stove and then blame the stove
It's prison how does he have a phone
The reporter worried about a cellphone in jail instead of the real problem…the corrupt system. Why do they pay so little for a dangerous job like that? And they wonder why no one wants to work there or stay for long smh
This is how it is all over Georgia's prisons. No staff no counts it's absolute chaos
Thanks for the video. Now I know more about Georgia prisons.
Wait are they doing an interview with a prisoner on a smuggled phone? 😂 Man this is out of control
Stop going to prison. You know the conditions before you go in there.
The news going to great lengths for a interview 😂
How did they get the video?
It's a prison not the Ritz-Carlton. They hurt their victims why should they be treated like royalty?
Not everyone is in prison for a violent crime, not everyone in prison is guilty. Treating someone like a human being isn’t royalty
@@mindyourbusiness1811 it doesn’t matter. That’s what prison is about punishment.
@@8213apice punishment doesn’t mean you treat them inhumanly
@@mindyourbusiness1811 Even if they not violent, that does not mean they did not hurt the innocent. A shoplifter is not violent yet their actions are 'hurting' the shop and the staff that works there. Vandalizing the wall is the same, they 'hurting' the owner of said wall. Violent or non-violent, they hurting the innocent in one way or another.
What if he was set up or falsely accused
I was a C.O at autry state prison, it was definitely dangerous, we dont even get guns, we dont even get O.C spray. We literally had nothing. Me and another officer was attached by a inmate with 2 shanks, and it was nothing we could do, i was cut in my hands because i grabbed the blade to keep it from hitting my stomach
What's crazy is a prisoner has a watch and a cellular device whilst in prison.
Wow just wow
Stay out jail
What he need to do , is stay out of Prison. Some of these Jokers always act as if they are the victim. Because of this massive criticism and disregard for Authority , a lot of people no longer want to work as a Police or in Corrections. People will never understand the magnitude of things an officer have to deal with. Being under paid, unappreciated, disrespected. Moral is always low etc. Sorry for that inmate’s death and nobody with a heart wants that . With all the situation I mentioned, Inmates are left to the mercy of each other. Believe me it’s going to get worse . God forbid an escape by some of these very dangerous inmates. The Public would be at the mercy of these Criminals. New Prisons with Cameras and less contact with Officers , is going to have to be the new way forward. Then have a strike team on standby at all times. Everyone have their opinion, but no body sees the Officers side. Inmates nowadays have more rights than Officers.
🤣🤣
You act like everyone in prison is guilty. The nation is filled with corrupt Judges, Prosecutors and LEOs.
THE WORST CRIMINAL IS YOUR GOVERNMENT THE 1 WHO KILLED RAPED BURNED THE NATIVES OF THIS LAND SO GO FIGURE
If my memory serves me right, this dude disclosed to the reporter , that it’s his first time in 20 years that this situation has happened to him. I interpret he’s a repeat offender. I have three family members who I know of, who have been to Prison. One did 8 years, decided he will never go back to prison. He now works for one of the largest Transit company in the nation, has his own house, wife and kids. Started with him gaining a trade when he got out and never looked back. The other two are dead, no illegal activities. Point I’m trying to make is there are options to be productive or you can continue going in the system or end up like my other relatives. I do agree that there’s some crooked people in the system ,however we have to stay away from that environment.
Brian Kemp needs to resign immediately!!!
I was raped and burned. No help. I had a posession charge and now live with ptsd as a result. Prison ruined my life. Its not about reform its PUNISHMENT AND TORTURE
18 bucks an hour to walk among killers...
The way folks criminalize law enforcement let the folks who criticize law enforcement work in the prisons. Pay more if ya’ll want folks to work. $18 an hr is ridiculous. Folks should be making no less than $ 35 an hr.
The new hires I bring in at our plastic injection molding business in Tennessee, with zero experience, walk in at $19 per hour to count parts and place them in a correctly labeled box. The prison system should be ashamed of itself!
Damm I should move to Texas and come work for you lol
@@kingofsaturn555 you need to be able to read first 😁
@@jenjabba6210 lmao do you even own property bud? I thought not internet warrior big listing at your parents house vibes 😭😭
@@kingofsaturn555 you still need to learn to read and pay attention. You won't find him in TEXAS
Uh 19$ dollars aint nothing nowadays. Maybe before the inflation but post inflation that is nothing. My car got totaled and I paid 4K for it in 2017. That same Civic is now almost $9000 dollars.
Don’t nobody wanna go into that place every day💯
Man it's been messed up in these prisons...
Who the hell would work in that place, except the desperate
Blacks
$18/hr to be a CO, wow guys just wow. $27/hr might get my attn but 18 is literally a joke.
$18 hr is ridiculous for that job😡
So sad how he get a phone my condolences to the family friends
Working in corrections is tough. Covid made staffing issues much worse.
How is the prisoner recording on a phone to begin with? Isn't that contraban?
There’s allot of cell phones in there
So we just gone ignore the fact the inmate is in his cell just chilling on the phone doing an interview with a news reporter.
We need an app that don't blurr- out anything, show videos as is. If your squeamish don't tune in.
I tried to get a job but they want me to have a high school diploma. 😒for what? Criminals
How sad and sickening for a family to see or hear their love one abandoned like for hours. Please pay up!!
Over 3 MILLION AMERICANS incarcerated
$18.28 a hour to go to Prison for 8 hours a day and play with the Prisoners is not worth it these days.
Less than -$19! You have to increase the things that are and will make someone to join the force........🙏
This is also true for the rest of the US. Officers give us the phones everyday. Just depends on the shift. Money talks.
The phone rates have sky rocketed because it’s monopolized in the system. They’ve been eroding visits to push paid visits through a screen now.
I need 100k plus to work as a correctional officer and free healthcare on all levels of care.
Moral of this story, protect your freedom
"Want to come work for a terrible system, terrible governing body, be around inmates that would just assume murder you as wave to you if they get the chance, and all for about 40K per year with two weeks off?
Awe some on why not?!"
And we care why....?!
Well they should be locked in their cell 22 hrs a day ...ANYWAY ..
Ppl don’t want to deal with babysitting dangerous criminals.
No way in hell anyone should work that job for 18/hr 😢
$18 hr to work in a jail/prison is NOT trying to recruit qualified workers. Here in California Del taco and McDonalds are starting off at $16-18hr....I know Cali is way more expensive to live but even in Georgia $18 hr is in no way respectable pay for working in that environment. Wonder where all the tax payer money is really going?
18$ hr in Georgia us way better than 18$ in cali lloolooool gas is waaaaaay cheaper so is housing
Speechless!
Prayers for my brother! Gotta get my brother out🙏🏾
Phone for inmates should be included in prison care package... Wait why do they have smart phones again
That is sad
I've been in prison. It wasn't hard to see after covid that prisoners were going to be far worse. Particularly fir ones who got there during covid. Wouldn't surprise me 1 bit for them to go full Lockdown
Well maybe the young people need to stop deciding to commit crime then they wouldn't have to face the possibility of being put behind bars if they weren't already out there committing the crimes
@@techtiger217 IMO society making it harder to even go to prison than in 90s and early 2000s. When I was going to prison if I got 1 dirty urine I was subjected to my entire back up time. Now they won't even violate for 1 dirty urine and if so get 15 -30 days. Not really bad thing some do have drug issues but for some its symptoms of the criminal lifestyle those are the ppl who will end up prison or dead regardless of how many chances they get
@@jojofreelancer1210 unfortunately for a lot of them it's probably generational
This is both sad and traumatizing even for prisoners. Something needs to be done!!
Best advice!!! Stay outta trouble and outta jail. It’s not that hard!!! Prisons are understaffed bc the pay isn’t worth it. Understaffed bc prisons are being overpopulated with criminals There’s no way these prisons can keep up with staffing when the crime rates are at an all time high. Incentivise the CO’s. That’s a six figure job all day long especially with Georgia having the toughest prisons in America
How does an inmate have a cellphone? Im sure a cellphone is considered contraband.
Nope
I had one when I was in there lol my mom bought it for me I was 20.
It should be
Un-ac-cep-ta-ble! Committed my ass! Whomever was on duty should be fired. Excuses galore.
Contraband phone? That inmate needs 2 more years added to his term!
Glad you mention the fact about the dead guy. Seriously we need cameras inside that prison that covers every inch of a prison. That is the only way. They have them already. Now it needs to be nation wide ,also body cams for any law enforcement in the us . Federal,state city ,county ANY!
Raise the pay and you'll get the staff,its really that simple.
Also get better benefits.
And don't work them like slaves would help too.