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.
Not in California, though it happens unofficially. Feral cats, mice, that sort of thing. There are prisons where inmates do animal care, horses and service dogs, but they are not "pets" per se.
The infamous Birdman of Alcatraz never had any birds at Alcatraz, and lost permission to have the birds at Leavenworth when he was caught with a still to turn the seed into booze. He was also a vicious homosexual pimp who wrote reams of homosexual pornography using prison staff as characters. Also he didn't look anything like Burt Lancaster.
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Sorry, but I don't remember for sure. Possession of the tattoo gun is different than tattooing. I THINK the gun is 30 days. Since the law has changed now and putting tattoos on someone without a health certificiate is a crime now in California that would carry a much heavier penalty.
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No, it would not. It would not even be an issue unless you cohabitate. if you live together and he is still on parole or probation it MIGHT be some small issue, and unofficially might be a medium-size issue, depending on who is doing your background and who has to approve it. It also might matter what his offense asnd background was. If he is / was heavily gang involved there would be some suspicion that you are a mole. If he is just a felony DUI or has a 10-year old commercial burglary, it wouldn't be a big deal. It would be much more of an unofficial problem than an official one.
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Drugs. Porn is pretty good too, at least in prisons where it is prohibited.
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Radio program/music director
Just how good of a radio host do you think Howard Stern is?
Help Desk Technician
What's the closest you've come to "losing it" on someone you were helping?
Hotel Employee
What was the craziest request you ever got from a guest?
Don't know about jails. Prisons CAN read inmate mail other than legal mail, but they rarely do. There just isn't the manpower to do it. Where I worked there were six workers who did nothing but open, inspect, sort and deliver inmate mail. If you were to actually have to READ all of it it would require dozens of people. That gets expensive.
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Not sure that it helps, but it doesn't hurt. Quite honestly most higher-ups in CA, people that make hiring decisions, look a LOT of states as flyover country and view experience there as insignificant (or at least did when I was still working). However, experience anywhere does tend to mean you have time in the environment and won't just walk away becuase you find the venue psychologically uncomfortable. It is PROBABLY a positive, and is almost certainly not a negative.
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None of the prisons in California have operational cemetaries, though both Folsom and San Quentin have very old ones. When a prisoner dies the remains are turned over to the next of kin for burial. If the next of kin do not take them, they are burried at government expense in whatever cemetary the government contracts with. I believe that is handled by the county and not the state, though I am not 100% sure of that.
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