The Lord blessed me today…
This morning, while I was at work, the counselor from E-North's "Intermediate Care Program" came to see me. He gave me an invitation to come to the cell block where the mentally challenged men live to spend the afternoon with them. He told me I could visit and talk with any man I wanted to. I was thrilled.
Although I live in the general population, for many years I worked at the Intermediate Care program (since 1989). I have no doubt that God called me in this direction, because I have a heart for these men. I treat each one special. Only a handful of inmates at my prison have the official clearance to go into this area of the facility, which would otherwise be off limits.
So, at 12:30 this afternoon, after I finished my janitor's job, I headed to E-North. I was able to stay there until 3:00 p.m. It was nice being able to talk with the guys. They were glad to see me, and many of them asked when I was going to come back to work in the Unit. I told them that I would only do so if I sensed the Lord leading me to return.
There are approximately sixty-four men in E-North. Some suffer from depression. Others from other ailments. Most are in touch with reality much of the time, but almost all require some form of psychotropic medication to function well. Many of them, in my opinion, don't even belong in prison. It would have been better for them to have been placed in a psychiatric institution or something similar.
D.B.
Although I live in the general population, for many years I worked at the Intermediate Care program (since 1989). I have no doubt that God called me in this direction, because I have a heart for these men. I treat each one special. Only a handful of inmates at my prison have the official clearance to go into this area of the facility, which would otherwise be off limits.
So, at 12:30 this afternoon, after I finished my janitor's job, I headed to E-North. I was able to stay there until 3:00 p.m. It was nice being able to talk with the guys. They were glad to see me, and many of them asked when I was going to come back to work in the Unit. I told them that I would only do so if I sensed the Lord leading me to return.
There are approximately sixty-four men in E-North. Some suffer from depression. Others from other ailments. Most are in touch with reality much of the time, but almost all require some form of psychotropic medication to function well. Many of them, in my opinion, don't even belong in prison. It would have been better for them to have been placed in a psychiatric institution or something similar.
D.B.
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