Bob Walsh
Stockton, CA
Male, 60
I worked for the California state system, starting as a Correctional Officer and retiring as a Lieutenant in 2005. I now write for the PacoVilla blog which is concerned with what could broadly be called The Correctional System.
For starters you should NEVER be in that position in the first place. Assuming it did happen, you go with the bird in the hand and keep custody of the prisoner you have. You might be justified in shooting at the fleeing prisoner, but you would not deliberately loose the one you still have to maybe catch the one who is running.
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With all due respect that may be the most poorly constructed question I have ever read in my life. A little punctuation would be nice too. I THINK you are asking in prisoners are issued tablets (i.e. ipads) as part of the "correctional experience" or as some part of a training program. I am unaware of any jurisdiction that does so.
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I am unsure what you want. I don't see a question here. I am GUESSING that you want me to supply information on the "old" system versus the "new" system. Since I have now been out for more than 12 years I don't think I will be able to supply much help. Sorry.
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My opinion, for what that may be worth is, generally speaking, no.
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I don't know. In California the state maintains a web site that can tell you what job an individual person has with the state, but not necessarily the location. There are 33 prisons in CA so you would have to call each individual prison and check with the personnel office. At least in CA the information is not confidential. Other employers might have different ways of doing things. Now days there are lots of commercial web sites that can locate an individual for a modest fee, so as long as you have a name and an approximate age or birth date it shouldn't be that hard.
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It depends where. Some jurisdictions use a very bootcamp-like training operation. Some a very classroom oriented with a minimal physical component and necessary chemical agents and firearms training.
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Without knowing a little more about the situation it is hard to say. If this is an incident report, something you were directly involved in and are required to submit a report on, it would be an odd thing for a supervisor to just "reject" the report without saying what is wrong or unacceptable about it. At some point someone will notice your report isn't part of the package and want to know why. I am guessing this is something else entirely. You definitely want to keep a copy of the report and note that your boss "rejected" it without comment or discussion. depending on what it is exactly you might want to go around your supervisor, and run it up a parallel chain, like maybe a business manager or personnel manager depending on the exact nature of the report. You might want to jump the chain and go to your bosses boss (not to be done lightly and sure to cause trouble even if you are right). You might want to lateral it, to a union if you are represented by one and let them carry the load and attract at least some of the heat. That's what they are there for. You might want to go completely outside your agency and work at picking up whistle-blower status to give you some protection. Or you might want to let it go. Without knowing more about what is going on it is really hard to give any serious recommendation. Good luck.
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