Yolanda Dickinson, a former jailer at Rikers Island NY, recently came out with a book called “Taboo,” which details the trysts between inmates and their guards. Dickinson was fired in 2004 for having phone conversations with inmates, including one she particularly liked, because he beat up another inmate who had offended her and claimed to have murdered a rapist.
Dickinson characterizes Rikers, in which some 4,000 women are involved in guarding the 12,000 inmates, as a “soap opera.”
Rikers has seen a steady stream of female guards dismissed for liaisons with inmates in recent years. The most violent and notorious seem to be most in demand:
At least six female guards have been fired or forced out for undue familiarity with prisoners since 2007, including Kimberly Hurd, 39, who bore an inmate’s love child; Yolanda Turner-Goodwin, 44, who was photographed hugging and kissing a prisoner; and Kadessha Mulgrav, 34, who allegedly sneaked away for a midnight liaison with cop killer Lee Woods in a shower room.
There is doubtless something appealing to a number of women in having access to a large population of confined and supervised men who also happen to be under their authority. If the general trend started by feminists were to continue indefinitely (I am certain that it will not), the entire country would resemble Rikers Island, with the majority of men under some form of penal supervision and existing for little more than the pleasures and whims of their female superiors.
