Wow Paul! This is an amazing piece of writing, and really took me back to the times when I worked in the jail doing those 15 minutes checks. I could literally feel ( and smell) almost everything you described here ❤️🩹
I was a Correctional Officer for 12 years. Then I moved into the community side of things where I worked as a Community Corrections Worker and then finished my career in justice as a Probation Officer. My career is where my PTSD came from ❤️🩹
Wow Paul! This is an amazing piece of writing, and really took me back to the times when I worked in the jail doing those 15 minutes checks. I could literally feel ( and smell) almost everything you described here ❤️🩹
You worked in the jail system? 😮 I didn't know that!
What was your vocation? What'd you do there?
I was a Correctional Officer for 12 years. Then I moved into the community side of things where I worked as a Community Corrections Worker and then finished my career in justice as a Probation Officer. My career is where my PTSD came from ❤️🩹
🤯
- that career path ain't no joke🫡
♥️
Thank you. If for no other reason than because you haven't been told that enough.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you Paul…I appreciate you 😊
This is so, so good. God doing rounds — unvarnished truth, but there's hope in it.
Thank you, Larz ☺️
If hope comes in tiny, fleeting, nearly imperceptible glimmers...then yeah, there's hope in it, in us - in all of us ♥️
Paul, Great/detailed/shocking essay!
"Imagine being so far gone that reality itself has become your enemy".
I just published an e-book this Friday!
Your referenced sentence is so true, in your essay, and in my story!