credit hours away from high profile college athletes.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California prison officials ordered an end to using word puzzles as a substitute for guard training Friday after a state assemblyman questioned how finding hidden words such as elf, snow and gingerbread prepare officers to handle dangerous convicts.
Guards at some prisons were being told they could complete nearly one-quarter of their annual training by doing word-search and crossword puzzles on the job.
Correctional officers are supposed to receive 52 hours of training each year in such things as firearms, use of force and transporting prisoners. Forty hours are hands-on but Department of Corrections spokesman Todd Slosek said a union contract that took effect last July required the remaining 12 hours be spent studying bulletins with policy changes, administrative directives - and puzzles.
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several friends going there. One told me about a class in Turkish History taught by one of the best in the field; considered a must-take for any serious history major. (He was later murdered, probably by a half-crazed Armenian-American over the 1918 massacre- or myth- take your pick.)
But the way he taught the course made it a "Mick"- for Mickey Mouse, or 'easy 3 credits.' My friend, a history major, took it one year with all the Bruin basketball starting five. (Kareem et al.) 
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My former job took me into several NM prisons, all run by a couple of the new "privatizing" companies. If I had had the inclination I could have supplemented my income by furnishing shanks to the inmates, since my tool kit was full of them, and since the guards were so lax/untrained/stupid- pick one. IOW, with just my own common sense I protected those guards better than they did themselves.
My wife was offered a good job with one of those companies; I had to say "no." And we needed the money.
Regards, Doug outside in New Mexico
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