Corruption Officer

In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and salacious insider’s account of his descent into criminal life, selling drugs inside the infamous Rikers Island jails.Gary Heyward’s life changed forever when he received a letter from the New York City Department of Corrections announcing he was accepted into the academy for new recruits. For the Harlem-born ex-Marine, being an officer of the law was the ticket he’d been waiting for to move up from a low-wage security job and out of the Polo Ground Projects in New York City—and take his mother with him. Heyward was warned of the temptations he’d encounter as a new officer, but when faced with financial hardship, he suddenly found himself unable to resist the income generated from smuggling contraband inside the jail. In this astonishing memoir, Heyward takes readers on a journey behind the walls of Rikers Island, showing how he teamed...