Man, MattD, you're a cop magnet!
And you want to go from military to paramilitary? Why? Are you that bored? You should speak with WernherVonTrapp. Maybe he can talk you out of it.
My Army unit supply sergeant was a prison guard at Joliet for a spell. He related some hair raising stories about his time there. I too have seen the inner workings of many jails and prisons. Not as an inmate mind you. Just a technical contractor at work.
They're not pretty at all.
Prisoners can do all sorts of strange things when they're in stir. IE: I was sent on a repair consultation call (from a competing company) at the Kentucky State Pen to repair a cell block control system in the Maximum security cell block. The controls were set up to enable the guards to not only issue instructions through a speaker in a cell but, also to listen in through the same speaker that was mounted in the lighting cabinet at the top of the wall. Yes, a speaker can double as a microphone. After opening the cabinet I found the speaker wires stripped and tied together to negate any eavesdropping by the guard in the control room.
Now, consider if you will. This cabinet was mounted in the corner where the wall met the ceiling about ten feet off the floor and secured shut with security screws that require a special tool to remove. Somehow a prisoner had fished out the wires through those little holes in the speaker grate, stripped them and tied them together. The strange part is, the wires were placed back inside the cabinet. All of this would have had to be done while standing on a cellmates' shoulders without a patrolling guard catching him doing it. The holes in the grate were nowhere near large enough to pull a folded wire through them and none of the holes had been elongated in any way to accommodate the feat. After effecting the repair, I anchored the wire to the cab so it couldn't be fished out again. I suspect the residents got a big surprise not long afterward. Possibly in mid coitus
