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Where the good stuff is, i guess. jail policy does not allow officer youngman to work in cory s housing unit. but most of the staff who do work there are aware of the relationship. she s in a sad situation because her son is locked up here and i know she s embarrassed that he is here. but everybody supports her and nobody says anything to her about him because everybody knows what the situation is, so it s one of those unspoken things. do you ever play the mom card? my mom is an officer here. have you ever played that card? tell me about that. you play that card sometimes. most of the time it doesn t work. it never works. he tries to use his mom as a manipulative tool here. i tell him all the time, stop talking about your mom. i don t want to know nothing about your mom. don t jeopardize your mom s job. from then on, he don t say much to me and i don t say much to him. like any other parent, youngman is only allowed to see him as a civilian in the ....
These things is just amazing to me. in fact, his mother is what makes cory youngman so well-known here. officer youngman works at the jail. what s it like for you, working in the same jail where your son is incarcerated? i don t think about it. i do my job, i go home. any parent of a drug addict, you sleep so much better when they re in jail. is that horrible? but you do. they re not out there dying, overdosing, committing crimes. it s got to be embarrassing for her, you know, to come to work and oh, yeah, i seen your son over in the other unit. it s shameful for me and i would imagine more so for her seeing how she s the innocent in this. she didn t do anything for me to be here. sometimes you got to go through the hard stuff to get to where the good stuff is, i guess. jail policy does not allow ....
Privileges, came as a result of an argument lucas had with a nurse. still, these sanctions are less severe than disciplinary segregation. but more painful to lucas is not knowing whether her boyfriend, james davis, is still in the jail or if he s been transferred to prison. i wrote james a letter. haven t got a letter back yet. who did you send it to? his mom. jail policy prohibits inmate-to-inmate communication, so lucas mails her letters to davis mother who forwards them to davis. last time i talked to him was last month when i got a letter from him. so i don t know if he s gone or if he s still here. i want him to know that i m here. i m not going nowhere. i m not going nowhere. i mean, people may say i should leave him alone, but i love him. he s got my heart. i just want to tell him that i m here for him. ....
I just stood up there and cried. i mean, i m all cried out now. i m still going to appeal it. but still kind of shocked. jail policy is to make sure that inmates who just suffered emotional distress of a long sentence don t intend to harm themselves. so soon after her return, hilberling must meet with mental health staff. here you have to ask the inmates point blank, do you want to kill yourself? are you suicidal? do you have plans of harming yourself? i said, i wish i did. you know. it might make this easier. but i m okay. i ll be okay. she was ready to cry. she was holding back tears. trying to be stoic as best she could after receiving a 25-year sentence. but she was cleared to go back to her general population unit. hilberling says she s made a conscious choice to view her future with optimism. i don t mean to sound all religious, but i think that s ....
Inmate violence and it has grown in popularity throughout jails nationwide. but erik who arrived at tulsa county less than 24 hours earlier but proved to be a magnet for violence. in this surveillance he is talking to the pod officer when he is brutally attacked. inmate rafael gonzalez begins the assault. officer love immediately calls for backup and orders him to stop. gonzalez is then joined by another inmate and both men continue beating olson. jail policy prevents him from breaking up the fight on his own. but after a minute into the assault just before backup arrives, love s orders are finally heeded. nava and gonzalez are placed in separation cells where they will be locked up 23 hours a day and lose all privileges. olson s injuries are too severe to be treated on site and he ....