Speaking of never really knowing someone, a few years into my correctional officer career I responded to an attempted suicide in one of the new admit cells and it turns out to be a guy I grew up with. We lived on the same street, went to the same schools and even hung out with the same friends. After we took him to the prison hospital for trying to hang himself, I talked with the guy for a while and found out that he had just been sentenced to 6 years for brutally beating his two small daughters, putting one in a coma and the other had brain damage.
After learning what he did I kind of wished we hadn't responded quite so quick. Luckily he got transfered to another prison not long after that and I didn't have to deal with him again.
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"To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~
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