3:16 - watch and learn 5:40 - this job is life or death sometimes 9:15 - there is nothing but ego and testosterone floating the air 11:15 - gangs are among us 13:20 - monitoring phone calls 15:35 - soaking the drugs 18:32 - getting to know the visitors 19:51 - it all comes down to risk management 24:20 - getting strip searched 26:29 - segregation has its pros and cons 28:33 - inmates have a hierarchy system 33:07 - we use a lot of psychology in corrections 36:54 - identifying 4 criminology personas 52:27 - dealing with inmate offenses and what if scenarios 59:46 - the stanford experiment 1:07:16 - death threats 1:09-25 - keeping people safe off the street 1:12:10 - least favorite part of the job 1:17:18 - not every person could be a corrections officer 1:19:00 - 3 truths about society 1:23:50 - no movie can interpret what it's like for corrections officers

After recent retirement and 35 years of serving as as an officer and director, Kevin Austin explains what it's like to work as a correctional's officer in a maximum security prison in Edmonton, Alberta and why it's not like what you see in the movies.

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