You say, "All these professions have on one hand a bureaucracy that has unacceptable political policies and on the other have individual human beings that need support within an inhumane system."

Sounds like my job. I'm a teacher!

Seriously, hilda, I have heard that you can judge a civilized society by how it treats its prisoners.

These prisoners are probably lucky to have you and we are lucky to have you do a job that not many want to do.