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When your corrections team is divided on how to respond to institutional failures

Our facility just had a serious incident and the administration's response has been to blame line staff while the real safety issues go unaddressed and our team is splitting between people who want to speak up and people who think we should keep our heads down. I'm caught between my loyalty to my colleagues and my belief that staying quiet makes us complicit in the next preventable crisis.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Speaking up about the real safety problems could cost you your job, but staying quiet makes you part of it.

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