July 12, 2024

They still have not issued me a tablet, I expect pleased they do not have to. I suppose I should have accepted the offer in the first place had I known they would then be preventing all weekend and evening phone access for those of us without a tablet. Rec is an hour today and it is really nice outside. As he often does, the unit manager comes outside and watches the inmates. One inmate points out that we get accused of masturbation if we tuck our hands in our waist band as our cloths do not have pockets but the unit manager can stand around watching us with both his hands in his pockets, implying he is fondling himself when he watches us. I walk into the room with the exercise equipment to avoid whatever he is watching us for and for some reason the unit manager follows me in there. One of the inmates soon to be released is bold enough to comment when the unit manager walks in the room. "Tom is here to watch me work out! Come watch me work out, Tom!" Being confronted about his creepy behavior embarrasses him enough that he turns red and leaves. He didn't go back to work though. He went outside and walked around the rec yard watching the guys get sweaty in a game of basketball. The jokes continue about him blowing kisses at inmates and how he should have pom poms. I am just struck at how many times I have heard they do not have enough staff but they have staff that doesn't have anything to do but to stand around watching inmates instead of doing a job. Find a cute man to stare at and never work a day of your life? I dont' know what he followed me for but I wonder if ulterior motives are behind my being deprived of phone calls. Maybe the unit manager is jealous and so he doesn't want me to maintain relationships with anyone else? If the first thing they think tucked hands would be doing is sexual, then what are they doing with their hands in their pockets? Creepers.