james ¢

Twitter’s not the medium to tell those stories. Once I’m an established professor at a university, I’ll be able to keep my students engaged by dropping those flashbacks on em when they least expect it

If I ever spoke favorably about working in corrections I renounce it. Way too stressful. I’ve already accumulated about a dozen experiences that most civilized people wouldn’t be able to believe could happen to someone, whether in prison or not

There’s really only two types of accounts: the assuming and the unassuming. Those who assume they know what they want and how to get it, are bound to be nothing but cesspools of seething envy—most true in intangible media like Twitter. Avoid like undercooked bat soup in Wuhan

taking this shit too seriously. Probably started out day 1 hating the people you looked up to, out of Girardian envy. Twitter isn’t a contest, much less a conquest Focus your efforts on immanent space https://twitter.com/helioslogos/status/1223126714764521475 …

Chilling at a help desk relaxing surrounded by 300+ respectful inmates reading my book and making $25 an hour... got my feet up... just gotta make sure no one overdosed. some CO’s do this every day for their paycheck, should be outlawed, basically stealing money from the state.

Wrapping up my scheduled 8 hours at my assigned unit where inmates assault staff on a weekly basis and create every conceivable headache, to going to work overtime at the min custody yard where inmates tuck in their shirts and say “yes sir” for no apparent reason

Absolutely— both of them.https://twitter.com/ankurrsharma/status/1220211532572909568 …

HBO’s The Young Pope was so good because its protagonist was Nietzschean, a pope who allowed himself to reach intensities that exceeded themselves. And now The New Pope is so good because it handles that former material delicately, showing us the sublime in that early grandiosity

Funny that academics, gender theorists, medical specialists, basically anyone who’s field of work pertains to gender health and identity etc. won’t touch this issue with a 10-foot pool, so RW Twitter gets to meme about it and basically invent the theory around the thing.https://twitter.com/Real_Xi_Jinping/status/1220078667595964418 …

When it comes down to it, being forced to engage in hardcore racial stereotyping is part of what makes “working prison” such a dirty job. But this modern luxury of seeing past race completely should be recognized for what it is: epiphenomena assuming the universality of civility.

A few days ago, I had to stop an African American inmate from entering the house I was working to sort out a “disrespect issue” with a member of his race. Probably wouldn’t have occurred among the other races. I stood between him and his target with nothing but a radio in my hand

I work with a surprising number of Hispanic CO’s who arrived in America as children with their parents... ILLEGALLY. Nonetheless, these have all been some of the most upstanding citizens I’ve ever met. No point in seeing race if we can both do the job just fine.

“It is what it is:” that’s one of the commonest phrases heard among staff members. You have to take reality seriously in a prison. If you don’t, you’re missing vital information and someone can get hurt. Race is one of the most salient factors at my yard.

Hispanics run my yard, especially Mexican mafia, and mutual respect is established between their leading members and staff. Whites are strung out and run a lot of black tar heroin. Blacks are disorganized.

Working at one of the last remaining prison yards in the country permitted to organize by race, I see racial dharma play itself out among the inmates, and even see traces of its nobility among the Hispanics, less so among the whites and African Americanshttps://twitter.com/BPD_GOD/status/1219766153049862146 …