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Jetdude
We have female inmates in our prison who are recruiters for human traffickers who are gang members on the streets. When a female inmate gets out if she has no place to go inmates refer those inmates to “this guy I know who can give you a place to stay” and they end up in force prostitution rings...
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“I Don’t Care About the Laundry”
As I was putting on my uniform my beautiful wife approached me and questioned me about how the clean dress shirts that were just washed ended up on the deep freeze in the kitchen. She said something about the shirts getting wrinkled and I, being the well-adjusted Correctional Officer, over reacted. I grabbed the shirts, put them on a hanger, and hung them up professing to her that I didn’t care about the wrinkles or the laundry. I told her that I didn’t care about the shirts because I haven’t worn them in over a year... read full story
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