Topic: A Broader View / Correctional Officers Needed for Research

Sorry I am not allowed to take part in that as I am a Correctional Officer in Canada though I would love to; Hope you had a good Christmas and will have a Happy New Year

Topic: Letter of The Law / Mandated overtime?

I got statted of for all three of the last holidays so that personnel who have less than a year in could get good overtime; I got to spend the time with grand children and my children and my husband but they chose to stat me off for people whom have less time in, because it would cost them less; I have 13 years in the service

Topic: The Club House / Need help finding some info!

A little word, in Canada when you do something like this it gets you in trouble; but we have seat belts for all prisoners and the staff and just recently our escort staff got armed. Be safe; and my friend be happy

Topic: The Club House / A Rather Pissing Me Off Thing

I don’t know if in the United States they do this, but I seriously hope that they don’t. My nephew is a correctional officer like me in the same institution, Kingston Penitentiary which is a men’s maximum security prison open since 1835; Well he spent the day taking an inmate to the North West Territories for a funeral on this past Saturday, not being with his wife, he wasn’t even supposed to work but he’s a member of our IERT the equivalent of your special response team. I came into work, and yes I am his aunt, but they asked me to stay and make sure that the crew’s stuff was good to go; I’m not a member of the team and women are not allowed to be members of the teams up here. That’s not my issue: I want to know if any institution down there let’s the inmates go to family funerals on the public’s dime?