Corruption Officer by Gary L. Heyward

Author:Gary L. Heyward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books

CHAPTER 32

OVERTIME

“That’s a man! That bitch is a man!” inmates are shouting at the television.

I have gotten stuck on overtime again. I’m working the Mental Observation housing area, aka the Nut House. I’m sitting in the dayroom watching a bunch of inmates watch a talk show that wants the audience to guess whether the person standing onstage is a man or woman. The inmates scream out their guess again, “That bitch is a man!” Another inmate screams out, “If it is, I’d still fuck her shiiieet!” Then they all slap each other a high five while laughing out loud. The MO house is where people are either crazy or pretending to be crazy to try and beat their case. Right now these fools are jumping off the wall until they hear their favorite call, which is MEDICATION! Ah, right on time. They all line up at the front entrance of the housing area to receive their prescribed meds for the day and then, bam! It’s like the house has done a 360-degree turn. No more yelling at the television or nothing, just the walking dead.

Then an inmate sitting nearby starts to talk to me about his case as if I’m interested. I entertain him because, hell, what else do I have to do. He tells me that he shot eight people in the Fort Greene projects because they raped his daughter. I take a look at him and all I see is an old man with salt-and-pepper hair and glasses that are held together by tape. My assessment, no killer here, but then again, what does a killer look like? He sees the look of disbelief on my face and decides to show me proof. So off he goes to his cell to retrieve what inmates call “paperwork.” These are the court papers that officially tell why an inmate is incarcerated. They are so official that if they ain’t right, meaning if an inmate has paperwork that names him as a snitch, it could mean death. As he runs off I’m thinking, Great, besides being a babysitter, a judge, and a counselor, now I am a fucking psychiatrist. We wear many hats doing this job. While he’s at his cell, I take this time to go to the back of the housing area so that I can get a signal on my cell phone and check my messages.

BEEP, the first one is from Bryant. The murder, from what I hear, is still being investigated, and she sounds hysterical: Yo, these fools are really trying some bullshit! I learn that King is covering Fran by saying that he was on the A side of the housing area when the inmate got killed on the B side. This takes Fran out of the equation as to whose fault this was and still leaves me out there! They both know that when I rolled up into the area both of them was in the officers’ station and what’s bugging me out is why neither one of them is stepping up and saying that I had nothing to do with this shit.

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