Comment by alexpotato

6 hours ago

This also happens in prisons where inmates are able to manipulate guards or nurses.

e.g.

- guard is chewing gum

- inmate says "where's my piece of gum?"

- this is b/c it's against the rules to chew gum and the inmate is implicitly stating this

- the guard should go to his boss and admit he made a mistake

- but decides to give the prisoner a piece of gum instead

- the inmate now has leverage over the guard b/c the guard broke the rules and then "covered it up" by giving the inmate gum

- this can then get slowly escalated into bigger and bigger asks from the inmate until the guard is bringing in drugs

This is not hypothetical. There are documented cases of both this and male prisoners "seducing" multiple female prison employees despite their being explicit warnings about this.

Both of the above are from this book: Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax by William Wright [0]

I highly recommend it for both the stories above but also a look inside prisons in general and how they operate with medical care more specifically.