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I know it has been a while since I last posted:D I had a lot of research to do and thankfully it is done. I guess in a way now I have entered a time of uncertanty. As most of you know I work in a prison I hold a level of trust not only with my inmates but the public as well. Last week I listened to my supervisor lie to my workers and when they came to me I could not answer because I could not stand behind a lie that threatened their lives and I could not tell the truth because I am suppose to stand behind my supervisors. I have come to a point where I dont know what my job is. I know what God wants me to do but it contradicts what I am expected to do. If I say anything I will be removed from my job which tears me in two because each person is so precious to me and I know they rely on me to make them smile and to love them. The other side is that I totaly disregard their humanity and see them as only a number. this weekend I am lost and don’t know where to turn. Please if any one has advice please give it.
 
I guess this one was a hard one to answer. or maby I am to ignorant to see the answer.

What would you do? What is the right path?
 
s4angel said:
I guess this one was a hard one to answer. or maby I am to ignorant to see the answer.

What would you do? What is the right path?
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I surely do not have an answer, but I would find a priest that I trust and lay it all out on the table. Does your prison have a priest or spiritual advisor that you can speak to?
 
I wish it did. The one we have is so politicaly minded that I have lost all trust and I have watched him negate his position in promoting his position. My priest at church while he is good is so bumesy with the politics of the church to have time to me. I did try to see him him but his demeanor said he had more important things to do. He never answered my question. I do not get the chance to go to church very often and when I do it seems like he has no time.

Listen I know what my heart tells me to do. I am so scared though because my children depend on me to make a living. this job is my calling. I know that every time I see thier souls so scared to believe that another would believe in the best of them.
I try I realy do but I see so much that is not right. they are not numbers they are people who deseve to be treated as such. I can not lose my job because my kids depend on me but on the other hand they depend on me to fight for what is right. Why would God knowing who and what I am put me here in this position?
 
I wish I could offer you advice, but I cannot.
But I can offer a prayer.

Dear Lord, you know that this humble servant sees Your face in the face of all those he is charged to care for. Please, show him the path to do what is most pleasing to You. Give him the grace to seek Your will in all that he does. Please give him peace of mind and heart.
 
s4angel said:
Dear posters,

I know it has been a while since I last posted:D I had a lot of research to do and thankfully it is done. I guess in a way now I have entered a time of uncertanty. As most of you know I work in a prison I hold a level of trust not only with my inmates but the public as well. Last week I listened to my supervisor lie to my workers and when they came to me I could not answer because I could not stand behind a lie that threatened their lives and I could not tell the truth because I am suppose to stand behind my supervisors. I have come to a point where I dont know what my job is. I know what God wants me to do but it contradicts what I am expected to do. If I say anything I will be removed from my job which tears me in two because each person is so precious to me and I know they rely on me to make them smile and to love them. The other side is that I totaly disregard their humanity and see them as only a number. this weekend I am lost and don’t know where to turn. Please if any one has advice please give it.
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You haven’t given us enough detail to answer you. My experience has been that in most dilimmas there are multiple acceptable solutions, **if **you carefully examine the situation.

And, without meaning to offend you, we have only one side of this story – it may well be that what your superior wants is truly the best choice. We don’t know. We don’t have enough information.
 
Can you give us more information about this supervisor’s “lie”? Perhaps the specific situation?

If there is the possibility of prisoner abuse, violations of rights or workplace harassment, take a look at this web site. They may offer you some starting points.

whistleblowers.org/
 
We all know the bad shape of our prisons. Mice infestation, cockroach infestation, Black mold the list is endless. The issue surrounds the safety of a juice mashine that has sat unused for the better part of two years. Most of the lines were replaced but it was never removed for cleaning over the last week I noticed that many of our inmates were getting sick with the “Flue” I checked and found out that they were being forced to use this machine and so me being me I threw a fit and had it shut down. Later that day my supervisor after admitting it was never taken off unit to be cleaned to me told them that it had.

I refused to allow it to be used and contacted my warden about it and was assured that it would be removed and cleaned right before I went off duty I witnessed it being plugged back in and orders given that it was to be used even though it was not safe.

If I say anything I can lose my job if I don’t then I am endangering a human life.
 
s4angel said:
We all know the bad shape of our prisons. Mice infestation, cockroach infestation, Black mold the list is endless. The issue surrounds the safety of a juice mashine that has sat unused for the better part of two years. Most of the lines were replaced but it was never removed for cleaning over the last week I noticed that many of our inmates were getting sick with the “Flue” I checked and found out that they were being forced to use this machine and so me being me I threw a fit and had it shut down. Later that day my supervisor after admitting it was never taken off unit to be cleaned to me told them that it had.

I refused to allow it to be used and contacted my warden about it and was assured that it would be removed and cleaned right before I went off duty I witnessed it being plugged back in and orders given that it was to be used even though it was not safe.

If I say anything I can lose my job if I don’t then I am endangering a human life.
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Use the whistleblower site an earlier poster gave.

Be advised that while there are laws to protect whistleblowers, there are no real-world guarentees.
 
s4angel said:
We all know the bad shape of our prisons. Mice infestation, cockroach infestation, Black mold the list is endless. The issue surrounds the safety of a juice mashine that has sat unused for the better part of two years. Most of the lines were replaced but it was never removed for cleaning over the last week I noticed that many of our inmates were getting sick with the “Flue” I checked and found out that they were being forced to use this machine and so me being me I threw a fit and had it shut down. Later that day my supervisor after admitting it was never taken off unit to be cleaned to me told them that it had.

I refused to allow it to be used and contacted my warden about it and was assured that it would be removed and cleaned right before I went off duty I witnessed it being plugged back in and orders given that it was to be used even though it was not safe.

If I say anything I can lose my job if I don’t then I am endangering a human life.
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This is an issue of safety. An anonymous tip to a local newspaper might get some interesting results. Lefties love to hold up inmates ans some sort of oppressed class. (Which in this case they seem to be.)
 
Your prison must have a medical director there who is treating the sickness of these prisoners…maybe in your position, you can suggest to him a direct link and he can order the machine not to be used.
keep praying on it… the safety of others is necessary…worse case scenario, you can do some damage to the machine to put it out of it’s misery.
 
s4angel said:
I wish it did. The one we have is so politicaly minded that I have lost all trust and I have watched him negate his position in promoting his position. My priest at church while he is good is so bumesy with the politics of the church to have time to me. I did try to see him him but his demeanor said he had more important things to do. He never answered my question. I do not get the chance to go to church very often and when I do it seems like he has no time.

Listen I know what my heart tells me to do. I am so scared though because my children depend on me to make a living. this job is my calling. I know that every time I see thier souls so scared to believe that another would believe in the best of them.
I try I realy do but I see so much that is not right. they are not numbers they are people who deseve to be treated as such. I can not lose my job because my kids depend on me but on the other hand they depend on me to fight for what is right. Why would God knowing who and what I am put me here in this position?
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Of course! Did He not ask Abraham to sacrifice His only son? Trust in Jesus’ promise:

Matt 6:25-7:1

25 "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his span of life? 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; 29 yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O men of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles seek all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

34 "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Seek first the kingdom, and everything else will be added to you.
 
s4angel said:
I wish it did. The one we have is so politicaly minded that I have lost all trust and I have watched him negate his position in promoting his position…
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Resolve this problem with the prison priest. Here is the protocol for proceeding:

Effective Lay Witness Protocol

The prison priest answers to a Higher Authority than any of the other people in positions of power at the prison.
 
Just a simple remark from a nurse… This machine could not have given them the Flu… Only another person with the Flu could have spread the virus.

Don’t worry so much about the machine… Just lay hands on it and sprinkle it with a little Holy Water…
 
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