First Week Solo Complete...all is well!!

I absolutely love my new job with the Department of Corrections. It is hugely challenging and the amount of overtime that I am working is somewhat crippling (twenty hours last week alone) but every minute is different from the one that preceded it…unlike IBM which was a monotonous drudge of day-in-day-out with no changes whatsoever.
I supervise upwards of thirty inmates by myself in a living unit which is 12 cells and a dayroom. I have an office within the unit where I handle the paperwork and observe the unit from. I also continually patrol the unit for illicit activity, contact or contraband (tobacco, etc.). The first day I worked a unit by myself, I will admit it, I was terrified. But as the first three weeks have ended, I am more and more building a rapport with the offenders I supervise. This is not to say they are my friends, I am well aware of the chasm that separates me from the inmates.
For example, the other day, I had an inmate disobey my request to turn off the television during headcount. He told me to go “**** myself,” and would not do it. I immediately issued him a DR, which is a Disciplinary Report. The DR is submitted to higher officers within the DOC which make a ruling on the DR and issue sanctions to the inmate.
I issued another inmate a DR as well for using “abusive language toward or in the presence of staff or volunteers,” again while he was in the midst of disobeying an order. We also have a point system where an inmate can earn up to ten points a day for achieving certain goals…hygiene, interpersonal relations and conduct. These ten points go towards moving out of a lower Living Unit into a privilege unit.
I absolutely love my new job. It is where I was meant to be.