sarrafish

Ditto, child birth sounds like a breeze now.

You mentioned that a friendship or positive relationship with inmates can get you ostracized, I've seen the opposite. Not putting down your opinion/experience because I know it varies site to site.

My uncle is a correctional officer and got jumped by a guy, was out of work for 2 weeks recovering. While he was out, inmates that liked my uncle beat the living shit out of the guy who jumped my uncle. The guy never gave any correctional officer trouble again.