For my protection as I started a new job about 6 weeks ago. These past few weeks have been nothing but schooling “academy”. Wednesday is my first day as a full fledged correctional officer, working with the inmates. I work in one of the most dangerous male prisons in the state. I’m one of the few females that work there plus I’m rather small compared to most of the inmates. I’m not afraid or scared by any means (I might be a bit crazy, but I guess I’d have to be to work in a place where there is 1 CO to 200 inmates, with out a weapon), but I do understand that at all times my life is in danger and that any given moment one of those men could hurt me.