- Over-identifying with the inmate ("my inmate") or their issues (i.e.
blind to inmate’s actions
- Horse-play, sexual interaction between staff and inmates
- Inmates knowing personal information about staff
- Isolation from other staff
- Inmates has letters, home telephone numbers, or photos of staff
- Staff granting special requests or showing favoritism
- Inmates in an unauthorized area, or repeatedly out of their assigned place
- Staff spending an unexplainable amount of time with an inmate
- Telephone calls to and from staff/inmates
- Inmate grape-vine, inmate snitches, inmate/staff rumors
- Staff in the facility during "off hours"
- Pregnancy or a diagnosis of STD
- Staff overly concerned about an inmate
- Drastic behavior change on the part of an inmate or staff
- Staff having sole involvement with a particular inmate
- Unusual balance, or activity, in an inmate’s commissary account
- Staff having excessive knowledge about an inmate and his/her family
- Staff intervening, or helping with the inmate’s personal life, legal affairs
- Staff sharing food or snacks with inmates
- Staff testifying for an inmate, requesting special treatment for an inmate,
writing letters to judges, etc. on behalf of an inmates
- Staff delegating their duties to inmates (supervisor of cleaning, assignments)
- Staff bringing in large amounts of food, soda, snacks
- Overhead conversations between staff and/or inmates which are sexualized in
nature, or refers to the physical attributes of staff or inmates
- Inmate sexual activity
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- Indispensable inmate: "Only one who can do this job."
- High/low number of inmate grievances
- Inmate wanting to go to work early or volunteering to stay late
- Staff confronting staff over an inmate
- Staff intercepting inmate disciplinary infractions or editing infractions
- Staff tracking outside inmate calls (number and content of call)
- Inmate improving his/her appearance, dress, make-up, hair
- Isolated posts/positions/work assignments
- Staff can’t account for time during work hours
- Staff’s family being involved with inmate’s family
- Increase in contraband in an area
- Staff working in a secluded area with inmate(s)
- Staff taking inmates out of cell at unusual times
- Staff in personal crisis (divorce, ill health, bankruptcy, death in family)
- Staff who consistently work more overtime that peers and who volunteers to work
overtime
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