Washington State Prison

Ethan Hoffman

Freelance

Working as a guard is a lonely frustrating and sometimes dangerous job. Turnover rate is more than 50% a year and fewer than 15% stay more than 18 months. Every inmate has a knife or access to one, and last summer two guards and four inmates were killed in the prison.

Ethan Hoffman, "Washington State Prison," in POYi Archive, Item #10090, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/10090 (accessed November 22, 2024).