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At that point, I knew that if things weren't spiraled out of control, they were definitely

heading there now. I really had no understanding of what I was getting myself into.

And you're just setting there and you're helpless and there's nothing that you can do.

There's green space between the buildings that the Indian women's prison. Grass and walking paths.

The prison yard. Several years ago, Cynthia Long was incarcerated at IWP and she remembers

walking through the yard on her way back from a family visit. She saw a guard, she didn't recognize.

He was on the yard. He was the yard officer that day. And as I was coming up to him, he kind of

did a double taken, stopped me and said, what's your name? And I told him, he mocked my accent and

he said, well, I'm going to call you Kentucky. And commented something about my blue eyes or something.

And then I went on. And he was always smiling and flirty. You know, I noticed that was some of

the other people too, but that was my first contact with him. Did that seem weird? I mean,

were some guards, some guards were flirty like that. I mean, you just, you kind of put them in a

category. You knew that was how they work. People in prison have to learn how to deal with

correctional officers because CO's control nearly everything where you can go, what you can do.

The women we talked to while reporting the season said they knew CO's who cared, who treated

them with respect. Their job is safety and security. So you've got people that come in there every day.

And as long as the inmates are safe and secure, they don't make it miserable for you.

Then you've got some that come in there and they're just total assholes and they don't have to be.

They don't have to be. But they make it their priority to be. So you just, you had to learn to

maneuver around those type of people. The officer Cynthia met on the yard who nicknamed her

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