RC & NG, is your corrections facility safety minded?

Im really just looking to see if all corrections environments are the same as the state prison I work at.

Are your supervisors and safety & security team doing what you think they should be when it comes to the safety and security of the instutution, employees and inmates?

I know everyone has that frame of mind who cares about the inmates, they killed their mom, or raped their neighbor. but we all know we have to maintain their safety as well.

Do your supervisors handle inmates assigned locations properly? Are there known conflicting gang issues housed together? Are there suicidals being left untreated or unwatched? Do inmates go to solitary confinement when they should or is it blown off?

I wonder because just a few weeks ago, I was running a pod housing 159 inmates alone. It came count time, every inmate in their cell for 100% accountability. I made my first round counting, had all accounted for, I went back through to finish my lock check and verify my count before calling it in. I come up one short the second time. I sighed thinking I miscounted, so I went back through each cell, opened every door and had every inmate stand so I could count. Each cell I wrote down on paper to add up so I knew I didnt miscount.

The third time, all was accounted for. I was happy then. Called in to operations to give them my count. It was good.

Later in the day, as I got relieved in the pod, I went over my security footage in pod as I do every day before I went home. It come count time on camera and I noticed after my first count, an inmate popped his door open and left his cell. These pods are huge so you cant always hear everything. I seen myself do my second count, he was still out. After I passed his door, he popped it again, resecured his door and went in.

After this footage I went in, pulled him and his celly out and searched the cell. Found nothing, and I tore that cell up. So I went ahead and wrote an incident statement, a disciplinary report, and pulled the tape and secured it to a chain of ecudence form and turned it in. He never got put in the hole; because the shift supervisor didnt want to move him. According to policy, thats an automatic trip to the hole for tampering with a security device. He could have just as easily popped that door and come after me. They still refused to lock him up. This is not an isolated incident. This kind of thing happens often throughout the compound that houses 1800 inmates.

Anyone else run into issues like this?
I love my job, but I want to come home everyday too. Now that inmate knows he can pop his door and get away with it.