By: Megan Clark Campus Life Editor
“I was a correctional officer for many years, and, uh, I think I stuck with it because I felt like I was perhaps making a difference in people’s lives. If they made poor decisions and they ended up in prison, maybe my role-modeling made a difference to them. But at the end of the day, I felt like I wasn’t making enough of a positive difference, so I wanted to change my life.”
“My mom had been clean and sober for twelve years, and then in April she fell off the wagon … Right now, I go back and forth between being really upset with addiction … and then also thinking about how lucky I was to have gotten to have those times with her in those twelve years.”
“The most memorable thing [about being a correctional officer] for me was an interaction with an inmate … she had made significant changes in the way she saw the world around her, what we call in the system ‘criminal thinking’… she got out, and it was probably about four months later, I saw her in a commercial for Goodwill and she had gotten a job and became a spokesperson for the company, and it touched me.”
