A tall, stern-faced man leads a German shepherd into the cab of my truck. I tell the woman I’m a new cadet, here to start my four weeks of training. She directs me to a building just outside the prison fence. 17 are in Texas, 7 are in Tennessee, and 6 are in Arizona.38 hold men, 2 hold women, 20 hold both sexes, and 1 holds women and children.These include 34 state prisons, 14 federal prisons, 9 immigration detention centers, and 4 jails.I exhale.ĬCA RUNS 61 FACILITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES: “Have a good one, baby,” she says as I pull through the gate. My brother been in jail, and my cousin.” He has scars on his arms. One, he says, is from a shootout in Baton Rouge. The other is from a street fight in Winnfield. He elbowed someone in the face, and the next thing he knew he got knifed from behind.
“It was some gang shit.” He says he just needs a job until he starts college in a few months. He also wants to put speakers in his truck.
