Please consider this observation by Ron McAndrew, retired Interim Director of Corrections for Orange County, Florida. Mr. Mc Andrew spent more than twenty years in Florida's Department of Corrections as a Corrections Officer, Investigator and Warden. On April 19, 2005 he testified before the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons. He described the employees of the Florida's Department of Corrections this way:

"It was during the early days that I began to learn that [the Florida Department of Corrections] had a two-core staff assembly throughout the department. There was first the core group who did the work as required by rules and regulations, but often with the exception of 'not reporting' certain incidents observed, for fear of job loss or retaliation. The second group was certainly the minority core but the group who illustrated that they owned the law and could enforce at will without regard for its content. Though not core, a third and very small group did in fact give their full worth toward excellent corrections as demanded by law." [To read the complete transcript, click Testimony of former warden Ron McAndrew]