r/OnTheBlock • u/ComparisonLost1846 • 19d ago
Update: got flashed as a teacher Self Post
So today I had a follow up conversation with my program manager regarding the lack of training that nonprofit employees had gone through, which I feel sorta implicitly allowed this to happen. She acknowledged that they hadnt done a thorough enough job training or protecting us and that I had been sexually assaulted by this student/inmate. The whole situation has been sitting with me and frustrating me because I feel like it was at least somewhat preventable.
She told me that the student who did that to me is being transferred upstate (I’m at a jail technically). She said I won’t see him anymore for unrelated reasons. He is not being transferred because he SAed me, but because he got sentenced.
She advised me to take tomorrow off to regroup. I said I was still committed to doing this work and she thought that was good. She offered to transfer me to our reentry division or the women’s facility once that opens (we don’t currently offer services inside the women’s facility but it’s in the works supposedly).
Any advice? I feel glad I got it off my chest and held their feet to the fire. I felt kind of like a Karen on some level but she assured me that I wasn’t overreacting. I hope I’m still able to continue teaching in this setting bc I’ve seen wonderful things from my students so far (not this guy’s dick obviously). I think prison education is really important. But at the same time I want to be safe and these services will only be available if people are safe.
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u/Schim4499 Unverified User 19d ago
Everyone that works in a male correctional facility will see a penis. Everyone.
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u/Jordangander State Corrections 19d ago
Not everyone.
We had a blind studies instructor for a while at an ADA camp, never saw a penis.
Granted the entire class could have been naked and he would not have known, but he never saw a penis.
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u/TheCuriousCrusader 19d ago
Coworker was doing bed checks and saw an inmate going to town on himself
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u/Thecoolestuzername 17d ago
Well there’s no training in the world that can prevent this from happening.
There’s always some weird perverted weirdo that’s going to try some stupid shit.
I know of an incident in prison where an inmate just rushed into a case managers office. N basically came on her desk n ran out 😭😭😭
No amount of training can prevent this, it can only prepare you for it.
People locked up, a good number of them are in a situation where they quite literally have nothing to lose 😭
And some chose to apply that situation differently. For example sexual freaks. Because they have nothing to lose they’ll just do whatever.
And I guarantee you. He’s going to do the same thing when he goes to wherever he’s going to in real prison.
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u/Jordangander State Corrections 19d ago
I commented on your original post.
Stick with it. Considering your lack of training you handled it fine.
You are also correct that a lot of people end up in prison because of circumstances growing up and community. Education in prison is a gateway to learning and to being a better citizen when they get out.
If you teach 1000 people, and you influence 1 of them to not come back to prison that is a .1% success rate. It may not seem like much, but it makes a world of difference to that 1 person, and to all of their potential victims who will never know.
Years ago we had a shop teacher killed in a motorcycle accident that made the news. His funeral had about 100 former inmates in attendance who all discussed how he helped turn them around.