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The Mean Girls By: Erin Kuhn-Brown [ID] 12-3-2019 Hearing the title to my essay you would probably think of the popular movie that Lindsey Lohan was in… Well, that title does not reference that movie. Rather, some of the female NDOC officers. I was already aware of huge issues within this place, and going to eat breakfast this morning was the absolute topper to this topic. As I entered culinary I see 3 female officers leaned up against the wall laughing & talking next to where we pick up our food. I walked away to sit down, and sat at the table and when my roommate sat down, we witnessed one of the ladies from our pod, who is very sick and walks with a walker, attempt to have another inmate carry her tray from the food window as c/o Williams speaks up loudly, and says "Oh no, she can carry her own tray.” As the inmate with the walker walks away, c/o Logan makes the comment "Oh look, this one is really high, she can barely walk.” And at that point c/o Burkett, c/o Williams, & c/o Logan start laughing like a bunch of mean 6th graders. As we continue to watch, c/o Baugrass walks up to the group that's laughing and ends up looking at what they are talking about, smiles & shakes his head & walks away! The sad truth to all of this, is that a senior officer witnessed inappropriate behavior which actually was discrimination against someone who is actually disabled because her spouse ran over her in his car, and broke her back, leg etc… Within this facility the sad realization is that there is no one to take concerns such as this that are so wrong, because staff, regardless of rank join in with each other, and when that happens I have zero respect for any of them. It also seems that some of the staff act & respond (at times) in ways that are more befitting of a state employee, dependent on which other staff members they are around. It brings a popular song from my past to mind, with a few words changed. All the way from your hood, to the neck of my woods! Please tell me, how discriminatory you can get?
