Personal Narrative: Cameron County Jail

Let me first begin by telling you how I ended up finally being admitted to my agency. It was a long process of searching and talking to people whom I hadn’t met before. At the end, I am glad I got into this agency because I did learn several things, and the staff was always willing to answer our questions. It made me want to get up during the morning to go and experience what was happening inside Cameron County Jail. Each day people would come and go to court or would be brought to the booking process. I don’t think there was ever a boring day where I felt I was seeing the same thing. Weeks before this I felt like I wouldn’t be able to find anything because I had gone to several other agencies. The process of going out and finding an internship …show more content…
The first thing I was asked was to filled out an application as soon as possible, so I could begin my hours. Lt. Flores said it was somewhat late, but if I brought the forms the next day I could begin once my background check was cleared. It took a while, but once that was done, I went and got my badge. The first thing I remember seeing that day as I walked inside the jail for the first time was an inmate sitting on a restraint chair and his face was covered so he wouldn’t spit on someone. The guy just kept moving and looking around. To me it seemed like he was on medications and without any idea of what was going on. Later during that same day while I was at the office a detention officer came in to drop some files of an inmate who had gotten beaten up by another inmate who happened to be deaf/mute. As it relates to this topic Dr. Lawrence was just talking about fights in jails a few days ago during a lecture, and how it might add more days to their sentence. How some people do it only to get segregated and be put in a pod alone because they have issues with the other cell …show more content…
Reports of their conduct while they are incarcerated at this facility will be forwarded to any institution that they are to be transferred to. For disciplinary action inmates that are written up for a rule violation will be notified in writing of the charges brought against them. There’s a list of major rule violations which are scaled from highest to lowest on a severity ranked. For example, yelling at other inmates that would be considered low, and sexual abuse would be at the highest end. Possible sanctions may result in any combination of the following, depending on the severity of the violation: lock up for a period of up to thirty days, loss of good conduct credit, loss of privileges of up to thirty days, and removal from work detail or