Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer [Paperback]

Kevin L. Thomas (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: 1st Book Library (April 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0759613907
• ISBN-13: 978-0759613904
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,314,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Insider's Perspective, February 3, 2006

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DE Navarro "NavWorks Press" (Northport AL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer (Paperback)

What better perspective than an insider? A gritty first hand account. Could use a professional edit, but if you can get by the grammatical errors, you'll appreciate the straightforward honesty and get a rare first hand glimpse into the real life despair of a correctional institution. Nothing trite nor cliche' about that.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Rise and Fall Of A Corrections Officer, December 28, 2004

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Robert Bruce Lehman "Producer, Writer & Actor" (Lansing, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer (Paperback)

Author Kevin L. Thomas chronicles his eight-year tenured service as a Corrections Officer at STATEVILLE, Illinois' infamous maximum security prison located 35 miles south west of Chicago. Difficult to read for its subject matter (the setting is bleak, stupidly bleak, and filled with dispicable people) and for Thomas' limited literay skills, "Isolated Incidents," is, nevertheless, jam packed with insights into the daily activities of gangs, chiefs, drug dealers, inept administrators, corrupt staff members and the author's own personal devils. How Thomas masters the wretched job and conquores the galleries as a CO is a clinic for anyone who finds himself in any high-powered occupation. Respected and feared by the inmates and staff, alike, Thomas became the invincible super-CO. He was brought to his knees, however, by his own hubris, and, in the last years of his career, went mad. It's amazing that he could pick up a pen to write about his experience, at all. Good luck, dear reader. Good luck.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer, August 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Isolated Incidents: Reflections of a Correctional Officer (Paperback)

I found this book intriging, informative, and very insightful. This book gives a shocking, truthful look at one of the nations Correctional Centers, and how corrupt the system can be. This is a must read!