Sunday, June 21, 2009

Why Jailers Aren't Paid Enough

Next time you want to complain about how much public employees, like jailers and correction officers get paid, remember this:

Authorities say 47-year old Michael Stockman of Marshfield wrote a threat against a Wood County judge on his jail cell wall using feces.

He's also accused of attacking corrections officers who entered his cell.

Stockman is charged with throwing or expelling substances, threatening a judge, assaulting a corrections officer and other counts.

He had been jailed on a drug charge.

How many people would be willing to go to work everyday knowing that some psychopath, covered in feces, could want to fight you? And then you have to clean up the cell on top of that!

On a side note, while not a lawyer, I betcha the guy's defense attorney will be going with the not guilty due to mental defect plea.

2 comments:

  1. Thhhpt. Big deal. When I worked at Mendota, it was an almost everyday occurance. It comes with the job. It's not pleasant, but it is what it is. You deal with it as a corrections officer or the custodian who has to clean it up.
    It's no worse than anyone who works in a nursing home or group home where you have to clean up poop.
    I'd be more graphic on the jobs I have had to do, but it is a family blog.

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  2. You're right, Dan. Nurse's aids and other such jobs are also grossly underpaid.

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