Creative writing week 10:

Running head: ROUGH DRAFT 1

ROUGH DRAFT 2

Rough Draft

Author Note

This written assignment is being submitted on February 27, 2016, for G201/CRW2001 Section 01 Creative Writing.

Rough Draft

It was a dark and rainy Friday afternoon around four o’clock when Corrections Officer Nolasco was getting ready for work. It was his first shift of this three day tour working at the county jail and he was telling his wife about the uneasy feeling that he was having. Rainy weather makes for tensions to rise between the inmates themselves and with staff as well. His wife had a understanding and knew this feeling also due to her working in the security field. As he was preparing to leave for work, he kissed his family goodbye like he does every night he works.

Officer Nolasco is a man who takes pride himself, his family and his career. He is a tall slender built man that is balding with a dark black beard and shows confidence in his abilities as an officer. He takes pride in his career and is very serious while there because it is a dangerous job but he also likes to joke around with people and understands that there is a fine line between being friendly and over friendly.

It is Friday evening inside the county jail, the light in the sections are dim due to the sky being dark as night because it has been storming all day. The officers coming onto shift can sense/feel the uneasiness/tension throughout the jail as they proceed to the briefing room to wait for post assignments along with any important information. The inmate workers can be heard talking about incidents that have already carried on inside the pods while they wait to enter the kitchen for their assigned jobs.

Once they arrive on post, Officer Nolasco and his shift partner Officer Wright are being briefed about what has happened throughout the day, the sense/feeling becomes a reality as they notice built up tension between several inmates inside the sections. The shift going off-duty told the officers that it was a quite decent day and that they did not have any issues to pass on. They did however advise them that they had a feeling that something seemed off in one of the sections. As the oncoming shift starts out there day with routine paper work, all the sections were given a five minute warning for headcount along with what their expectations where.

It was 6:15 on a Friday night and officer Nolasco had just announced that it was time for headcount. Has the two officers were walking into Charlie section, inmate Reed Womack appeared to be still asleep on his bunk. Officer Nolasco approached inmate Womack’s bunk and tapped it with my flashlight to wake him up for headcount while Officer Simpson conducted headcount. Inmate Womack jumped up from his bunk asking “what are you doing and why are you bothering me”. The inmate was told that it was now headcount and by him not being ready, he was disrupting the officer’s normal duties. Inmate Womack continued on ranting and complaining until he was escorted out of the section in order to quail the disturbance.

Inmate Womack is a typical young inmate who has been in and out jail since he was a teenager. He is usually an unruly inmate that likes to stir up the other inmates and try to cause issues for the officers. He is more of a follower to the person who us the loudest in the section because he believes that people are afraid of that person. Inmate Womack is a short stocky, light skinned person who has little man syndrome/attitude.

Once headcount was finished, Officer Nolasco attempted to counsel with him about his actions and how they will not be tolerated. Inmate Womack was informed what the officers expected from the inmates and also advised him of what the consequences were for his actions if it were to happen again. Inmate Womack then apologized to both officers for his behavior, disrespecting them and causing a disturbance. He was sent back into section because his demeanor and actions had changed for the positive, so he was only given a verbal warning and advised that the next time he causes a disruption that he will be sent to lockdown.