Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls

Brian Dorsey was put to death. Dorsey did unspeakable crimes. Unlike from the officers who loved him so well, we will speak about those crimes. We will talk about those he victimized. And then we will criticize the officers and senior staff who were charmed into thinking he was a wonderful man-- those he duped into speaking on his behalf. The officers who forgot the family members he put into their graves.

Jon loses his shit.

Up north another riot gets called a "disturbance," when admin takes their toys away. In Hawaii, an inmate held on a felony gathered up all his gumption and decided to hop a fence with razor wire because more than anything else he wanted to live his life as a free man. Things were going well until a bus arrived to change his plans. Now a lawsuit is probably coming surprise surprise. In Washington State you have more options than ever: Combos, Funyuns, Narcan, Diet Narcan. Washington says the opioid blocker though flood our children's streets-- have they taken their eyes off the prize?

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Shawshank Reference: 14:38

Fugitive Reference 21:04

Jake Joke: Tried To Avoid It

Idaho Department of Corrections went into damage control mode after a maximum security inmate set up his own escape from a hospital transport, which left several COs injured by gunfire from both outside accomplices and Boise Police. What went right, what went wrong, and how this rampage got put to bed.

Spin. It's what creates lift in a rotor wing engine and allows a drone to fly. It's also what the administration of a prison puts on a story in order to make it seem like one of their prisons blowing up was not only safe, but their own idea. Sounds like it happened in Georgia, but no-- this is Ecuador bullshit. Down in the city of Cyndaquil, drones-- formerly the peaceful transport mode of choice for drugs and guns to merely be delivered into a prison-- are now being used to carry explosive devices designed to help evil Ecuadorans from the mob to the vice president bust out. But what really happened? Was it safely detonated or was shit fucked up?

Jake Joke: The most C one ever

The Union and State legislators are calling on Massachusetts DOC to start taking action about a new synthetic cannabinoid that is being smuggled into prisons-- and putting officers in the hospital. DOC's response is "well we all have these challenges"-- how much longer can they ignore the problem? Why does it take a major incident-- an officer's death for anyone to care? Policy makers and power brokers are stalling to retirement or transfer, punting the problem to the next administration, as usual.

Jake Joke: Just straight confusing

In Pierce County Washington, three people were held at gunpoint after three others in ballistic vests came to their house claiming they had a warrant to serve and were there from the Department of Corrections. This, all a temporary cover for an armed robbery. Guess how long they stayed in jail in Washington? Not long-- the crime wave continued.

Luke, a former CO, tries his hand at podcasting and Jake goes nuts with the jokes.

Nothing lasts forever. Jon's not going anywhere (yet) but the torch has to go to the next generation at some point. He's busier than a boiled owl. The busiest year of his life just plum got away from him, and he's got to get back to livin' at some point. Get busy living, or get busy dying as they say. Carli's a case manager and former dispatcher, and a girl, so she's got everything Jon's got going for him and moreso. She regularly appears on "Gear Goonz," a YouTube show starring a rag-tag bunch of January-6 style revolutionaries who talk about knives and stuff BUT NEVER GUNS WHATSOEVER.

Jon hangs back a bit in this one to see how Carli does. Let us know if you like her, cause she's up for this post.

Jake Joke: Y, as in "why"

In this episode Jon and Jake take time to tell brief stories of our best officers-- men and women who faced the most dangerous situations and acted effectively to preserve life and enforce the law at great risk to themselves. In California, a CO finds a building full of people under attack; in Delaware officers depend on each other to survive an ambush on a housing unit; around he country officers intervene in emergencies in the facility and in the community, and represent the finest tradition of the thin silver line. Jon closes out with telling the story of the boldest officer he ever knew-- who received the Medal of Honor on the darkest day of his career.

In this episode, Jake is doing his best to be a father. Family comes first. Before podcasting, before work. He has his feet in two worlds of overwhelming worry and responsibility. Being a father of three, and being a sergeant in a community jail. As a professional he faces unchecked violence, false accusations which carry their own anxieties and baseless blemishes to his reputation. He faces the danger of fentanyl and even unknown drugs coming inside the walls. Sergeants and officers around the country face problems with their administration more concerned with the trauma that inmates endure, while saying nothing to support their own staffers. Around the country, children are at home warm and well fed, but are waiting for mom or dad to come home from a job that mandates they stay. They come home beat-to-hell tired and breaking at the seems from stress. There is no recognition by the media for the good work they do, little encouragement from the pro-police community, and no knowledge or understanding of their challenges by the public they protect. This is life for corrections officer in 2024. Lets look at a few cases from recent weeks.

Jake Joke: uncommonly bad but he's holding it together with duct tape today.

Thank you Jake for contributing to this show, we see you tired, stressed and doing your best.

On Friday, the boys decided to react to portrayals of corrections in media-- television especially. In this experimental episode, Jon and Jake watch Sons of Anarchy, season 5 episode 3 "Laying Pipe." This acclaimed episode from 2012 features several of your favorite Sons going to jail for the shenanigans of past episodes while striking various deals for protection and power. Of course, everyone buys more than they bargained for and Jon is left counting the cost: an easy episode Hard Time, that he himself barely understood.

If you want to watch along as Jake and Jon do commentary, you can watch Sons of Anarchy on Hulu.

Jakes Joke: Criminal