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Originally Posted by alantf
Strangely enough, I found just the opposite. In 1995 I spent just over a year at Wakefield jail in England. That's a class A (highest category jail, for murderers etc) as part of the team installing closed circuit television, and fence alarms. Without exceptions, any red bands (trusty prisoners, near the end of their sentences) who were passing with their escorts,would stop and give us a hand if they saw us struggling with heavy equipment, etc. I know that they must have committed serious crimes to be there, but to us they were really regular guys.
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Yeah, the trustees were great, always wanting to help if they were allowed, I never had much problem with them. It was the other inmates that caused some problems, as well as certain officers and brass. The trustees stayed in line, because if they didn't they would no longer be trustees, but would go back to general population. They earned their way to being trustees and didn't want to lose it.
By the way, I worked at a psychiatric facility; can you say Hannibal Lecter? Some of the things I saw will stay with me the rest of my life.