NEWSFLASH

It’s only 7:45 am and already a “piece of prison mentality.” Tier sanitation begins cleaning the tier around 7:30 am after the mass movement. This morning, Jay decided to move all the foot lockers so the area can be swept and mopped properly. Meanwhile, the Sgt. was walking through and spotted a bucket of bleach under one guys bed. No one is allowed to have their own bleach and especially not under their bed. Anyway, the bleach was exposed because his foot-locker was moved. The Sgt. immediately woke the inmate up and reprimanded him. The inmate didn’t say anything until the Sgt. and assigned CO left the tier, and upon them exiting, he flipped out—without his dentures in. He started to say, who the “bleep” moved his footlocker and to never touch it again. There was a lot more vulgarity. Someone else nicely told him that it needed to be cleaned and mopped. He didn’t want to hear this and this is where the “piece of prison mentality” comes out: He announced to everyone in the area not to touch his stuff again and I quote, “I didn’t come to prison to clean and I definitely didn’t come here to work.” Newsflash: You didn’t exactly check into prison by choice!
So I sat there thinking about his statement and viewing his area, where there were dust bunnies the size of baseballs under his trunk and bed. And he still flipped out at others for trying to clean his area. This is the exact attitude that saturates inmates, making it justifiable to lay around and do nothing all day because “they didn’t come to prison to clean--”emphasis on “come.” So what is it that prisoners come to prison to do--- since they don’t come to clean? Just a little piece of prison mentality and the question for everyone—“What did YOU come to prison to do?” HA Time for work.