Corrections
The Peripheral
Justin Evans
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Megan never saw herself working behind prison walls. But when family expectations collide with personal values, she finds herself donning a uniform—not out of passion, but out of a quiet hope to be seen, accepted, and maybe even understood.
This episode explores Megan's journey into the correctional system, where she learns to navigate the tension between duty and identity. She makes observations about her peers who seem to judge her the same way they judge the ones they oversee. Do you choose approval for others or yourself?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the peripheral. |
| 0:04.6 | On today's episode, I have a very special guest and apologies for everybody waiting on these episodes. |
| 0:12.5 | I've been going through a lot with other things in my life, so I'm getting them out as fast as I can. |
| 0:18.5 | Thank you for your patience. |
| 0:20.5 | My guest today is Megan and she worked |
| 0:24.1 | in corrections. And like most of you, I find topics like this fascinating. I want to hear the |
| 0:32.3 | reality of it. I want to know how it is on the inside. And Megan does a wonderful job explaining her role in this |
| 0:41.3 | and what it's like for a woman in this line of work. |
| 0:47.3 | So my name is Megan Candrian. |
| 0:50.3 | I am 48 years old. |
| 0:53.3 | And when I was 22, I thought a great idea would be for me to go into law enforcement. |
| 0:59.6 | And so I went into corrections at age 22. |
| 1:04.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | What kind of training does that require to get into that job? |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.9 | Well, so this was in Utah. |
| 1:10.1 | I don't live there anymore, |
| 1:11.5 | but they have an academy, corrections academy, and every corrections officer in the entire state |
| 1:17.0 | goes to this academy. I think, I was trying to remember last night, I think it's, I want to say |
| 1:23.8 | it was three months, but it might have been a little longer. But they do, you know, all the PT stuff. |
| 1:31.2 | And then a lot of kind of basic correctional law bookwork. |
| 1:36.3 | And then the rest of it is just watching terrible videos and I'm trying to scare the shit out of you. |
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