Rehumanization: Correctional Officer Story by Kyle Julian Diaz

I worked for two years at the Arizona Prison complex in Tucson. During my time there I worked at every custody level including level five, where half the inmates were from the general population and half were seriously mentally ill. I’d been in the Marine Corps before moving to Tucson, and I found that, being […]

Rehumanization: Correctional Officer Story by Steve Maynard

I started my career as a Correctional Officer in North Carolina in 2005 at two facilities. One was the old Greensboro jail, we call it the linear style facility with the jail catwalk and bar sliding doors, an old school jail, if you will. I was also working at a Direct Supervision jail in High […]