My stories involve mostly inmates hurting themselves or one another.

One guy broke apart a disposable razor and castrated himself over a toilet. One of the bloodiest messes I've ever seen.

A mental health inmate, housed in a padded room with no access to anything that could hurt him managed to come up with a single staple, the kind for stapling a few pages of paper together. He straightened it and used it to go up and down his left arm. He was flicking pieces of meat from his arm at us as we entered the cell and his arm looked like it had been through a shredder.

Another ding with multiple personality disorder began pummeling himself about the head and shoulder. By the time we got him stopped he was black and blue from his shoulders to the top of his head. The mental health clinician joked that the guy had one personality that all the other personalities hated and they ganged up and kicked the crap out of him.

Those are just three that stick out from a long list of assaults and self inflicted injuries from a career in corrections. Glad to be out of that world.


Chronographs, bore scopes and pattern boards have broke a lot of hearts.