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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BigStig, post: 2574648, member: 82215&quot;]I worked in a Max/Supermax prison for nearly 10 years.&nbsp; When I first started I was terrified, but I hid it well, I had to walk amongst killers and rapists and all I had was a tiny bottle of pepper spray to protect me from 300+ convicted violent felons <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies-vb/roundies/biggrin_2559.gif" class="mceSmilie" alt=":biggrin_2559:" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the first year I started to get used to the environment, this is kinda where you were in your threat awareness while delivering pizza &quot;in the ghetto&quot;, while you recognized that potential threats were always around you, you had to act as if it didn&#039;t bother you.. or you had no real control if anything DID happen.. so why stress about it?</p><p><br /></p><p>My last year at the prison we escorted an inmate who wasn&#039;t particularly violent to the nursing station.&nbsp; He was an average white dude, a buck 70 soaking wet, nothing compared to the 350lb+ violent tongans I had to deal with on a daily basis.&nbsp; </p><p>Because of policy he remained cuffed and shackled in back including a waist chain.&nbsp; We were told by the nurse to just stand outside the door in case she need us, she is a tough old broad who had been doing this longer than any of us had worked there, we weren&#039;t outside more than 20 seconds before we heard weird sounds coming from the office.&nbsp; She was underneath him on the ground.. with his teeth he had torn off her nose, cheeks and was working on her throat by the time we got in there.</p><p><br /></p><p>She survived and had extensive plastic surgery but she now lives in seclusion, traumatized beyond belief and a face kids point and stare at.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see your bravado much like this tough old gal...&nbsp; please realize that just because something hasn&#039;t happened to you doesn&#039;t mean it can&#039;t or wont.&nbsp; Any person, big/small, male or female would be a fool to not do EVERYthing in their power to prepare themselves for any number of scenarios.</p><p><br /></p><p>My company will not allow me to carry a firearm, but I have had a bit of knife fighting training.. and there is nothing in the rules about carrying a box cutter knife.&nbsp; While I&#039;m not up to the level as my instructor I&#039;m confident I could get one or two major arteries in a scuffle... then I just have to wait a few seconds and it will be over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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