For those that are confused, when you are hired in law enforcement, corrections or otherwise, you sign an ethics contract. Every ethics/moral code I've seen includes a clause that's states you SHALL not have contact or a relationship with known felons. The result of violating this is an automatic termination of your employment and not being able to be hired elsewhere. Since for most people, LE is a career, it's a big deal. I had a childhood friend that unbeknownst to me had gotten heavily into meth. I felt bad telling her that we couldn't be friends anymore, it wasn't a judgement of her, I just cared about my future in my job.

Damn, OP. Maybe this will convince your best friend to have a scaled-down wedding consisting of him, his fiancée, and a couple of witnesses, of which you'd be one? I know I'd be rethinking my guest list for any event in which my best friend couldn't come due to a number of prison gang members also being on the list.

Time for you and your best friend to have a heart to heart about where his life is headed!

maybe you should make better friends lol

is that not allowed or is there a safety thing?

it's a conflict of interest. every mention of anything illegal will now be the responsibility of the correctional officer - which would likely ruin the wedding at best. then there's the opposite - uncle tommy gets busted a month later for the murder of 3 gang members, who would he naturally think outed him? even if correctional officer actually had nothing to do with it, it's essentially only a matter of time before the side of the law you choose, because it's a career, divides your friendship.

This is my favorite FML