Prison Life
Female Staff Used to Smuggle in Contraband Items to Prisoner Lovers
The public might find it shocking that female prison employees are finding love in their security conscious work environment, but it’s true. Jail nurse Elizabeth Ann Guy, 43, allegedly confessed to smuggling drugs and a black Motorola into Tulsa County Jail for her inmate lover. As the number of prisons and prisoners has increased, so has the staff that works at the facilities. And although intense background checks are conducted, there is no way to account for prisoners romancing the woman that work in prisons.
"Some of these women are starved for attention," a prisoner tells me. "That is why they get jobs at a prison in the first place. Where else can they get men eyeing them down all day?" In prison, staff even write incident reports for what they term reckless eyeballing, although it’s usually male staffers who write the reports when they observe prisoners gawking at their female coworkers. Not only are prisoners trying to take mental photos of the female staff, some are actively trying to seduce them and get them to bring in drugs, tobacco or cell phones for them.
"I have seen it happen too many times," the prisoners says. "A broad comes to work at the prison, divorced, can't find a man or can't get the attention she wants. The prisoners flock around her smiling, just because she's a female working in a men's prison. She forms relationships with some of these dudes and it goes from there. These dudes in here are sharks. They take advantage of these women and get them to risk their freedom, all in the name of love. But it’s not love, it's manipulation. It’s really sad in a way, because a lot of these girls can't see that until it’s too late."
And cases like the jail nurse Elizabeth Ann Guy, who faced felony counts with her inmate lover is lining up to testify against her, are becoming more common.
