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Corruption officerGary L. Heyward

Corruption officer

2015276 pages
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"In this shocking memoir from a former corrections officer, Gary Heyward shares an eye-opening, gritty, and devastating account of his descent into criminal life, smuggling contraband 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…

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  • Other · English · 2015
    Atria Books · 276 pages · 9781476794327
SmugglersBiographyCriminalsCorrectional personnelRikers Island (N.Y.)Police, biographyAfrican americans, biographyPrisons, united states