My Field Trip To Jail

Prior to the field trip I was not expecting what ended up happening. I expected the jail to be a lot more chaotic, the morgue more open in terms of bodies being out, Superior court being a little bigger and more intense, and the federal court house not being so big. This field trip was a real eye opener in terms of what I may want to pursue as a career in law enforcement. I learned a lot about how things work and how things in the future are changing so I can go on the right track in college to prepare myself for this kind of work force. The most interesting place we went was the jail in my opinion because it was pretty surreal seeing real people living there everyday lives in a cell. The morgue was also very surreal considering there were

That was a good experience to see because it showed me how the typical court room is and what it would be like. My first impression of Judge Cantrell was a little intimidating. She seemed very strict and straight forward but when she opened the floor to us and spoke to us we saw she was just doing her job. The second place we went to was the Lake country Jail. Walking over there was pretty intimidating. As soon as you walk up you can see on the sides of the building people in cells waving to you. When you walk into the building you see computers with phones where you can visit people, they no longer do face to face for various reasons. We asked the corporal giving the tour why and she said so no one can slip anything to an inmate and for money reasons. When she first walked in she was very strict and honestly scary. A girl in my group was wearing a dress and she said she was not going to take her in because of the “cat calling”. A part of me thinks she was making a bigger deal then what it was because she wanted to scare us. She ended up letting the girl come and she just had to stay by her the whole time. We had to put all of our

The morgue scared me a little because I didn’t know what to expect. I thought there would be an open body on the table maybe as an example and I thought it was going to be very cold. When we first got there the people who were talking to us had a sick sense of humor which you have to working with those jobs all the time. One guy said “No crying in my morgue” and “Don’t worry they won’t bite” and “What you see in the morgue stays in the morgue”. I thought it was funny but I can see how some people would find it wrong. When we walked in we went into a conference room and talked about a heroin epidemic in lake county. Apparently the number of overdoses from heroine in lake country is rising. It was about a 12 minute video of people who investigate these overdoses to families of people who have died using heroin. I never realized how crazy things were until it is put in your perspective. The sherif talked to us about all kinds of drugs and how they are one of the number one reason people have been dying lately. He talked about a new drug called angel dust and how a police officer picked it up one time at a crime scene thinking it was a rock and it’r really a chalk that looks like a rock and it rubbed on his skin and got into his immune system and he went down. EMT’s had to take him right away and try to get it out of his system. There was also horror stories about parents cleaning their kids room not knowing they use heroin and