April 21st

Well, things got interesting again last night. Right before lights out at 10:00 pm we got a call on the radio for all floor staff to report to the ready room. They had a cell fight in DSU (Disciplinary Segregation Unit) and they pulled all of our staff to go deal with it. They left one person to cover our whole building. At least we had everything done for the night, so it didn't matter so much, as long as we didn't have anyone get stupid. Fortunatley we didn't and they got the guys out in DSU with nothing more than a good dousing of pepper spray.

Then at just after 4:00 am we get another call. While doing the 4:00 am count, an inmate had attempted to kill himself. The way I heard it was he tied some string or a shoelace around his neck and used pencils to turn it like a tourniquet. When found he was unconcious. They called an ambulance and they again pulled two of our staff to go to the hospital with him. This left us with two people to feed breakfast at 5:oo am. Two people to serve meals to 150 inmates, it was going to be a late morning for us. Fortunatley some of the dayshift guys showed up early and jumped in to help feed, so it gone done only about 10 minutes later than usual. By the time I left, I hadn't heard anything about the guy that tried to kill himself. I am going in tonight to do an extra shift, so I will post in the morning if I hear anything more.