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Prison Doctor - James L. Windeck M.D.

Prison Doctor

James L. Windeck M.D.
James L. Windeck, M.D. , English
43 ratings

September 11, 2013When I first published Prison Doctor two years ago I told my experiences working in a private prison and how I got there.I felt like I was in another time frame when I went to my first job interview at a state prison to work as a prison doctor. It was old, noisy, appeared unclean, and run by guards who appeared lazy to me. The segregation area was like an old dungeon. I left and did not return. That was the Santa Fe, NM prison which had a horrible riot on February 2, 1980. It took years for the prison to recover from that incident.Five years later I interviewed at another prison, run by a private prison company. It was an entirely different situation. I took the job.First of all, I feel that a private prison can be run better because of the lack of bureaucratic connections seen in a government run facility. Secondly, a private prison is not the same as what you see on a television series where someone is killed or beaten every week. During my three years there was only one inmate death due to another inmate. There was one medical death. So if you want drama, you need to look elsewhere.Employees in a state run facility have entirely different rules, mostly union, and are controlled less than in a private prison. And private run operations are less costly.Comments by some readers who claim to be prison employees, most likely state run, appear to be made by individuals who appear to have a need to be in control. They also probably do not treat the inmates, whom they are paid to take care of, with any respect and most likely enjoy using their authority to rule the inmates. One thing they seem to forget is that the inmates will most likely not tolerate that treatment very long because what have they got to lose—they are already locked up. So the corrections officer should realize that they will get in return what they dish out. I treated the patients the same as I would have done in private practice, and this is what made it easy. I was hired to give medical care, not give out punishment. As time passed the inmates began to trust me and they began telling me their stories, voluntarily. They wanted someone to talk to that they could trust. Everyone needs to ventilate at times. I address no aspects of the criminal justice system or interactions of the inmates with other employees of the prison—that was not my intent. Some readers obviously want to share, or brag, on how (badly) they treated inmates as can be seen by how they were treated by the inmates.In my book I try to paint a picture of the view from inside the prison walls, what it looked like, how it felt to be there, and without giving identities, describe some of the personal aspects of inmates lives, and how they survive, both in the open world and in the closed world and what their feelings are. Some stories are very interesting, some humorous, and some incomprehensible.

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