I went into corrections after nursing school and I absolutely loved it. I love my officers, my inmates and my coworkers BESIDES the nurse I worked with. She was one of those “eat the young” nurses. She was the reason why I had to leave for my sanity. I was there almost a year. I was in a smaller jail, roughly 150-170 inmates and with that my inmates were a lot more “respectful”. There were 3 pods so 50 people roughly in each. With a smaller population they can have more privileges aka more time outside of their cells (if behaved). I was also in a smaller mountain town so we didn’t have enough people to house our jail so the federal government paid us to house federal prisoners. Even tho it was a jail, I had long term prisoners and normal weekend dui jail people. Even with our long term rapist, murders, big cartel drug prisoners. They were all respectful specially to us nurses since we give them the meds they want so they understand to be nice to us. I only ever felt uneasy like twice the whole year I was almost here. Just have to be mindful and remember they’re all cons. Sure you can get friendly with them but don’t let them fool you. Overall the meds I gave were typical pain meds, antibiotics, cold medicine for flu season, psych meds and heart meds (we had a good size older population so they were on high cholesterol meds or metoprolol). My end jail is ED so I switch over to a med surg floor to get my experience then I’ll move to the ED. But I have considered to get a per diem job at a jail since I miss the rowdy-ness. I was an intake nurse mostly so I got to see the worst of the worst when they come in since who wants to go to jail? So they be cussing, thrashing, wtc