NO ESCAPING HERE

I’m willing to bet that “He-who-has-no-name” is responsible for the sharp decline in blogging activity. Need I say more?

Immobilizations, for the most part, take place near the end of each month and not at the beginning. So when the siren literally catches staff and prisoners off guard, you know it’s serious. We had such an incident a month and a half ago. It wasn’t until the following day that I heard the inmates criticize custody for locking them down.

“You’d think they’d know how to count by now, especially with such a low number,” one of my students said, initiating shits and giggles amongst his peers. Most of them knew that the policies and operating procedures dictated how the situation was to be handled.

When the siren first blew and my fellow coworkers and I went to our designated areas, I’ll admit that I was a bit confused. “Why do they need to take count if the escape didn’t happen at our facility?” I asked. Then, before anyone in our group could answer, I said, “Don’t they know how many prisoners they had on public works detail?”

The information had already spread from staff person to staff person. Two low security level convicts working at a Port Huron cemetery decided to escape. The corrections officers contacted the appropriate authorities, loaded up the State of Michigan van, and headed back to our facility. The routine was set into motion: Lock down our prison; Start counting bodies; Send noncustody staff into the prisoner visiting area to wait for further instruction. And so we waited. And so I stayed awake.

It wasn't long and all the inmates at our facility were accounted for, except for the two short-timers from the public works crew. Within a few hours, they were captured. That'll be five years for attempted escape tacked onto their original sentences. Now who has no name?