@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
When I was a correctional officer, every few months the schedules were such that all of the officers were present on a day. On that day, we would systematically shake down the prison, or as much of it as we had time for. All of the inmates were locked in their cells until the shake-down team got to their cell. A team was shaking down one tier systematically. So it was not a surprise - everyone except for the first cell could see the progress of the team. They got to one guy's cell and he had a barrel full of jumpsteady (homemade prison wine). So this guy had at least an hour to flush his barrel in order to avoid certain lockup. But he just couldn't bear to do it.
Of course the real question is, did the illegal booze get flushed?
Yes, not much concern about that. Though there were some alcoholic officers, they could afford to buy the factory-made stuff.
Though I did have an officer say to me that if he ever found some cocaine, he would only turn in about 1/4 of it. This guy was big enough (built like The Rock) to shake down cells and even the annex room by himself, so he could do it without other officers witnessing it if the opportunity ever arose.