Well, today was a fairly interesting one at my job. (Nurse at a jail..) I was called to the segregation unit because one of the officers claimed that an inmate had "cut his wrist". So, I grabbed some gauze and a wrap and trotted over to the seg unit. Before I could get up to the inmate's cell, the officers were escorting him down the stairs. I noticed that he inmate had blood on his boxer shorts and his hand was stuck down the front...I thought, "Mmm." So, I turned around and walked ahead of the inmate, back into the medical department.

Upon arrival in the ER of the medical department, I asked the inmate to show me his wrist. He said, "Uh...my wrist is okay." I asked him where the blood was coming from and he said...well I think YOU KNOW what he said. I asked him how THAT area had gotten cut, and he said, "I've never been circumcised and I was trying to do it myself." I could do nothing but stare at him for at least 30 seconds..THEN, of course I had to look at the wound...He'd made a straight cut on the underside, and cut clean through a blood vessel.

Again, I do not think that the inmate population in general is a very bright one. Good night, folks.