The chair in the room of a prison psychologist

I spoke to a prison psychologist. She works at the service at least since 25 years. She has to make interviews also with staff members. She has to decide whether staff members are fit for the prison service mentally. Inmates are sitting in her office on a chair. She said some prisoners smell bad because of lacking basic hygiene.

One staff member was summoned to her office to undergo an inspection on the service fitness. He sat on the same chair. He said: "This chair smells you have to clean it." The chair was brand new. The prison officer felt himself embarrassed to sit in the place of a prisoner.

An average non commissioned prison officer hates the inmates in Hungary. Some of them are also afraid. Some are too young and inexperienced. Some of them have drinking, gambling and domestic violence problems. Most of them are underpaid. Most of them are overload. Most of them try to work also outside of the prison like private security guards. Some of them are racist, authoritarian and sexually inactive. Some of them live in hostels next to prisons in less better conditions than the prisoners. Some of them came from countryside, from villages where the unemployment is about 70%. Some of them keep to stay in the prison service lesser than one year.