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When You Lose Empathy Working in Corrections

I have been a corrections officer for eight years and I realize I stopped seeing the inmates as people somewhere along the way and it scares me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've stopped seeing the people in your care as human, and it frightens you.

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