Yup, Penny and I have our favorites among the COs too.

Years ago (before cell phones) I left a prison after a program, then came back into the A building looking for a phone to call somebody because I'd locked my keys in my car.

The CO said don't bother, and got on the horn with somebody further inside the prison. Fifteen minutes later out came another CO with a white-jumpsuited prisoner in tow sporting handcuffs and ankle shackles. He shuffled him out to my car, where he proceeded to pop the door open in less than a minute.

I thanked him profusely and said I wished there was something I could do for him. The CO scowled at me, said, "There's nothing you can do for him!" and shuffled him back to the A building.


"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain--that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." --Lysander Spooner, 1867