Former Inmates Are Revealing The Surprising Truths About Life In Prison

(Cont’d) “2.) You cannot fraternize on any level or at any moment feel comfortable with staff. My first time down after getting hired at a really good pay slot job (which was a very fortunate chain of events as I was a new first time offender, but had a friend’s referral), I noticed that the lady who hired me had a bowl of suckers on her desk, much like they do at a bank.”

“Of course, I didn’t touch them, but I asked, ‘Hey, can I have one of those?’ Well, apparently, this is a big no-no. Asking staff for anything can be seen as favoritism, bribes, or fraternization. By the time I got back to my housing unit, so excited about my new job, my caseworker called me to tell me I had been fired and blacklisted from any good job on camp.”