Optimal Vetting Mental Health Security Guards by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

  1. Rule out trigger happy bullies
  2. Only accept civilian applicants
  3. Only accept liberal arts college graduates with majors in sociology or psychology
  4. Check everything on an applicant’s resume
  5. Require all college transcripts (3.0 out 4.0 GPA minimum, preferably 3.5 and up)
  6. Two polygraphs one limited scope and one full scope
  7. Require some type of martial arts training
  8. Two different clinical psychological examinations by two different clinicians
  9. A tribunal question and answer operational interview with nursing staff and sociological technicians, and social workers
  10. An extended trial period of work in the facility

The Pathways Center Second Season security personnel certainly did not meet the preceding strict criteria (most desirable requirements). I was threatened with death multiple times by gun toting (off the facility for the most part) turnkeys. I was continuously bullied by the Security Staff and those beasts should not have been allowed to work around the mentally ill!

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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