Gardening 101!

Now this is a creative way to help out your wife . . .

A prisoner in jail receives a letter from his wife:
“Dear Husband, I have decided to plant some lettuce in the back garden. When is the best time to plant them?”

The prisoner, knowing that the prison guards read all mail, replied in a letter:
“Dear Wife, whatever you do, do not touch the back garden.  that is where I hid all the money.”

A week or so later, he received another letter from his wife:
“Dear Husband, you wouldn’t believe what happened, some men came with shovels to the house, and dug up all the back garden.”

The prisoner wrote another letter back:
“Dear Wife, now is the best time to plant the lettuce.”

Source: http://www.yuksrus.com/police.html

National Correctional Officers & Employees Week, 2014!

Did you know that the first week in May is National Correctional Officers Week? The week was designated by President Ronald Reagan under Proclamation 5187 enacted on May 5, 1984. It is designed to provide correctional employees, particularly direct contact line staff, the respect and recognition that they deserve. National Correctional Officers Week is observed annually during the first full week of May. – See more at: http://www.discovercorrections.com/blog/National-Correctional-Officers-Employees-Week-May-4-10-2014#sthash.r4qZ03ur.dpuf

Did you know that the first full week of May was designated as National Correctional Officers’ Week?  Proclamation 5187 was enacted on May 5, 1984, by President Reagan to afford correctional employees, especially the direct contact line staff, the respect and recognition they deserve.  The name of this designated week was modified by Congress in 1996 to include other vital members of the correctional staff besides just the correctional officers.

Allow me a quick shout-0ut to my brother, Dave, who is a correctional officer for the State of Michigan!

Here is a link to some correctional resources (courtesy of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service [NCJRS])

 

 

Happy Correctional Officers’ Week!

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed Proclamation 5187 creating National Correctional Officers’ Week (the first full week in May) to honor the work of correctional officers and other correctional personnel nationwide.

Here is a link to some resources courtesy of NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service):
https://www.ncjrs.gov/eBlast/corr_officers_week_12may06.htm

Also check out
The American Correctional Association
The American Jail Association
National Sheriff’s Association

Incarceration!

Another wonderful graphic from www.onlineeducation.net  Some pretty sobering statistics.  And, it reminds me of the following quotation (attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky).

“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”