Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 1410
I work in a prison here in Sweden. We have 3 security classes, 1 being the highest and 3 the lowest. Before the inmates get their sentence we also have a jail. Beside that, we have a transport unit that handles almost every single transport for the departement of corrections, the Police, immigration and different rehab clinics. Basically as soon as someone has their freedom taken away, the transport unit handles that transport.
I've been around quite a bit and have worked at every one of these places. All security classes, jail and transport unit. Since I've seen so much of the Swedish correctional work, I would be interested to know if anyone here works in a prison or similar in your own country and how things work there.
So if you have any experience, please do tell! And if you have any questions about my work, I will answer them as well as possible within the limits of what I'm allowed to say and not.
I have escorted Military prisoners to Adrmore Military Prison and stood guard at the court martial/holding cells, I have been "questioned" a couple of times as a civilian, no charges, played tennis and squash.... end of all court and prison experience for me, for now.
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Romania
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 13334
I didn't work in this field but here in Romania i heard that the guards of Romanian prisons live in fear, and some of them collaborate with prisoners. When guards enter in service shift, they infiltrate drugs, medication without prescription from the doctor, phones etc... and receive bribes. Corruption is at a high level here and politicians are guilty of this.
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 1410
Fortunately enough corruption isn't a big issue in Sweden. I mean, we do get a lot of bribes from the prisoners but I would say that 99,9%of people don't even consider it. I've personally been offered $800 for a bottle of alcohol and $2000 for a phone. Needless to say, I didn't take that offer.
Joined: Mar '19
Location: Canada
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 59
Posted by CALICUL: I didn't work in this field but here in Romania i heard that the guards of Romanian prisons live in fear, and some of them collaborate with prisoners. When guards enter in service shift, they infiltrate drugs, medication without prescription from the doctor, phones etc... and receive bribes. Corruption is at a high level here and politicians are guilty of this.
Lol the Romanian government is not shy to admit they are afraid of witches in a YouTube video i saw.
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Romania
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 13334
It's not just fear. There are many alliances with these witches and together they make a lot of money from this corruption. The people are indifferent and do not want to fight for normality. I would reintroduce the death penalty for those who kill or for trafficants of live meat or drugs with big risk.
Joined: Dec '14
Location: Greece
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 2123
I haven't worked in prison , or any person familiar to me . But here in Greece we all know the corruption in jails is too much . If you have some money , you are a king there , or maybe a powerfull gang member . If not , you live like garbage . Guards take bribes all the time . They behave in a very hard aggressive way sometimes , and if they are attacked in frustration by any inmate , expect everything , even your own death . Beatings by guards , especially beatings by other jailed inmates , threats , is a normal everyday routine . You have to be extremelly carefull if it happens to get jailled here . Some say it's not so bad in comparison to other countries like Romania , I wish I won't ever have the chance to figure it out personally .
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Romania
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 13334
In Romania it can be bad or it can be good, because here it is important to share what you have with the others prisoners and don't talk about what you shouldn't. There is competition among clans here and many times they beat 1 to 1 but not all persons. Just for divergence. There are also lonely people, who have a hard life there, if they don't know how to speak.
