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Watermen Behind Razor Wire
SOURCE: | By Richard Furno - The Washington Post - December 29, 2007 TOOLBOX
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"They're not going to do well at Wal-Mart," said Michael Paolisso, a University of Maryland professor who has studied watermen's culture. "They're captains."
Marshall hasn't worked on his boat since September, when he went out on a day off from the jail. He'd like to pass on his license. But he wonders whether his daughter will ever work on the water.
This is his work now: head counts, rubber gloves, strip-searches, prisoners in isolation cells. One recent night, he was about to open a cell when another officer stopped him.
"Be careful," the officer said. "He's got scabies."
Marshall said he has no plans to leave. There's nothing near his home in Rock Hall that would pay as well.
"Yes," he said later that night, doing paperwork, "10 years ago, if you told me I'd be doing this, I'd have called you a liar."
Correctional Officer-2
Jacqueline Hair
Jacqueline Hair's worst day in Eastern Correctional might have been the one when an inmate attacked his cellmate with a "lock in a sock."
That's a padlock inside a tube sock, swung like a mace.
"Blood was just coming out of the cell," flowing under the door, when she arrived. "It stayed in my mind for, like, a day," Hair said. "I just kept seeing that picture."
Hair, 24, is Janice Marshall's granddaughter, the child of Willard Marshall's sister. She, like her uncle and grandmother, has become part of a slow bleed of natives from Smith Island, population about 364. She now lives on the mainland.
