Michael Van Patten s 18-year old son came home to discover his father crouching by his side, tears running down his cheeks on the kitchen floor, gun in hand, an almost empty bottle of gin. Trevor close the door, ran up to his room, caught the weapon and did not talk to his father or anyone about the event for 13 years. For Michael, this was the accumulation of almost three decades working as a corrections officer at the Oregon state penitentiary. The only way I knew the best way to take care of it was to eat a bullet. There s little knowledge of the means by which the discipline officers who interact with prisoners are affected by the culture of endemic violence in penitentiaries. But with over 2 million prisoners and approximately half a million COs, this is a an issue that is widespread and underreported. Corrections officers have problems with post-traumatic stress disorder at more than double the speed of military veterans in america, based on Caterina Spinaris, the top profession
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