Long time readers of Ratlands may have noticed that as I’ve gotten further away from my last job and my health has improved, I have begun defining myself as a “former corrections professional.” Maybe not in so many words, but the intent was there. I realized that I didn’t miss it and eventually decided I [...]
Also tagged workplace, wtf?From MArooned, in a comment on a story about the consequences of Los Angeles County handing out badges to politicians: Nice. Real nice. For some bizarre reason, the police decided to hand out badges to politicians. Why? I don’t know; maybe they ran out of chainsaws to give to toddlers… If you don’t read Jay [...]
Also tagged qotd, wordsmithingAnd then there’s people like me… Today I was talking with one of my co-workers. She was telling me that she had just gotten word that one of her clients in a residential placement had just gotten in trouble. The story, as it was told to her: The client threw something at a staff member [...]
Also tagged Personal, workplaceI had intended to pick up regular posting a few weeks ago, but I’ve been trying to get my head around some impending changes here in the Ratlands. I’ve been trying to decide what to say, and have been having a hell of time, partly because I’m not sure exactly what I think, and partly [...]
Also tagged Personal, workplaceA lot of people a lot of the time think folks who work in work release type facilities are engaged in an adversarial relationship with our clients. Perhaps that is sometimes true. Perhaps it is true more often than we, ourselves, would like to believe. Still, most of us really do want our clients to [...]
Also tagged humorHere’s a very interesting article by a former drug treatment counselor about what to do if you discover your kid is smoking pot. As always, you should read the whole thing. However, I will tell you the short version is not “send them to drug treatment.” The author argues that if you send your kid [...]
Also tagged health care, lie to me, pointless gesturesThere’s a piece (which I became aware of via Cold Fury) at the Washington Post in which Richard Cohen asks the question “Did Liberals get it wrong on crime?” His lead paragraph: This is a good news, bad news column. The good news is that crime is again down across the nation — in big [...]
Also tagged Politics“Poverty breeds crime” is one of those simple formulations that seems to be pretty much taken for granted. Everyone knows it’s true, and it is one of the “givens” that we use, either directly or indirectly as a rationale for a variety of social programs. Having spent 30 years working in corrections, one would think [...]
Also tagged Nanny State, PoliticsSince I’ve been tinkering tonight, I decided to go ahead and copy the Stupid Criminal tricks material to Ratlands. There is a link in the sidebar now. There are only 4 stories at the moment. I remember that when I was writing them I had (and still have) several more in the works, but I [...]
Also tagged blogspeak, humor, stupid criminal tricksRatlands is using WP-Gravatar