Dannemora Prison Break, Season 1

When I was hired by the Contra Costa County Sheriff Department I spent the first four years of my career going through patrol field training, jail training. Patrol was an intense 12 week training program. Jail training was six week shake and bake training program. If you had a pulse you passed. I was assigned to transportation for 2 years as a deputy and one year as a sergeant. In transportation we were responsible for transporting inmates from county jail to State Prison. The difference between county jail and state prison is like night and day.. It doesn’t surprise me how these convicts were able to convince the female employee to smuggle in contraband to help them to escape. She was smart not going to pick them up. As I am sure they would have killed her. Prison guards or correctional officers have a very mundane boring job. Convicts are smart and know how to manipulate prison employees. How else do you think cell phones, narcotics and other contraband end up in these prisons. I’ve only watched the first 4 episodes. Prison Administration should use this film as a training aid. I worked with a female deputy who fell in love with a murderer. Who was being held at the MDF in Martinez. She was having sex with him in the transportation van and in his cell. We don’t know what contraband she smuggled in for him. Thank God a deputy noticed her unusual behavior and reported her. I’m so grateful no one was injured or murdered. To my knowledge the female deputy was not arrested or punished. She was allowed to resign and keep her pension.