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Former New York prison guard reveals his behind-bars drug-smuggling and pimping operation in new book
A former US corrections officer who served time for smuggling drugs into prison has revealed he also acted as a "pimp" for three female guards who turned tricks for jail management and inmates.
During his time working at New York City’s Rikers Island jail, Gary Heyward built up a lucrative smuggling ring which delivered drugs, alcohol, mobile phones and prostitutes to prisoners who could afford the high prices, the New York Daily News reports.
"I had orders for coke, liquor, cell phones and cooch," Heyward wrote in his tell-all book Corruption Officer.
Heyward was sentenced to two years’ jail in 2006 after admitting to smuggling in a phone to one inmate for $500 and trying to sell cocaine to another.
However, the two charges against the Operation Desert Storm veteran were only a small fraction of his behind-bars business venture, the book reveals.
After landing a job with New York's Department of Correction in 1996, Heyward ran into an inmate, named Biz, who also happened to be his best friend from when he was growing up in the a rough Harlem neighbourhood.
Biz immediately convinced Heyward to smuggle him in a carton of cigarettes, but did not tell him the carton was filled with marijuana which was then dealt around the prison.
Heyward claims the deception left him feeling cynical and hard-hearted, but he saw an opportunity to make some money.
Already in a financial hole due to gambling debts and child support, Heyward says the final push into smuggling came when a one-night stand demanded money from him so she could have an abortion.
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned cigarette sales in prisons, a black market sprung up in which a $2 pouch of tobacco could be on-sold for $200.
"The profit from the cigarette trade in jail outweighs that of any drug hustle on the street," he wrote in the book.
Learning of his operation, a female prison officer known as "Officer Rains" approached him and said she would smuggle in tobacco pouches if he offered her and two other female guards protection as they prostituted themselves to inmates and prison officials.
Heyward referred to the ladies as "copsitutes".
Working with an inmate known as "Flocko" who handled the distribution, Heyward soon turned to smuggling all manner of drugs and contraband to the extent that the pay from his legitimate job was a small fraction of his true income.
He realised things were getting too hot when another officer referred to an inmate as one of "your boys".
Heyward coyly asked his colleague what he meant and was told: "Don't have shame in your game now, we all see how chummy you are with some of these losers."
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...ing-and-pimping-operation#IEjLHHBR4qttTOfo.99
A former US corrections officer who served time for smuggling drugs into prison has revealed he also acted as a "pimp" for three female guards who turned tricks for jail management and inmates.
During his time working at New York City’s Rikers Island jail, Gary Heyward built up a lucrative smuggling ring which delivered drugs, alcohol, mobile phones and prostitutes to prisoners who could afford the high prices, the New York Daily News reports.
"I had orders for coke, liquor, cell phones and cooch," Heyward wrote in his tell-all book Corruption Officer.
Heyward was sentenced to two years’ jail in 2006 after admitting to smuggling in a phone to one inmate for $500 and trying to sell cocaine to another.
However, the two charges against the Operation Desert Storm veteran were only a small fraction of his behind-bars business venture, the book reveals.
After landing a job with New York's Department of Correction in 1996, Heyward ran into an inmate, named Biz, who also happened to be his best friend from when he was growing up in the a rough Harlem neighbourhood.
Biz immediately convinced Heyward to smuggle him in a carton of cigarettes, but did not tell him the carton was filled with marijuana which was then dealt around the prison.
Heyward claims the deception left him feeling cynical and hard-hearted, but he saw an opportunity to make some money.
Already in a financial hole due to gambling debts and child support, Heyward says the final push into smuggling came when a one-night stand demanded money from him so she could have an abortion.
When New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg banned cigarette sales in prisons, a black market sprung up in which a $2 pouch of tobacco could be on-sold for $200.
"The profit from the cigarette trade in jail outweighs that of any drug hustle on the street," he wrote in the book.
Learning of his operation, a female prison officer known as "Officer Rains" approached him and said she would smuggle in tobacco pouches if he offered her and two other female guards protection as they prostituted themselves to inmates and prison officials.
Heyward referred to the ladies as "copsitutes".
Working with an inmate known as "Flocko" who handled the distribution, Heyward soon turned to smuggling all manner of drugs and contraband to the extent that the pay from his legitimate job was a small fraction of his true income.
He realised things were getting too hot when another officer referred to an inmate as one of "your boys".
Heyward coyly asked his colleague what he meant and was told: "Don't have shame in your game now, we all see how chummy you are with some of these losers."
Read more at http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/...ing-and-pimping-operation#IEjLHHBR4qttTOfo.99
