The Prison Guard Who Risked Everything For A Cop Killer Inmate
She was paid to guard him. Then she gave him everything.
Nancy Gonzalez was 29 years old, a federal correctional officer with military experience and four years on the job, working evenings at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. Her job was simple. Guard the inmates. Do not get close to them.
Then, in early 2012, one prisoner was moved onto her unit. A man convicted in the deaths of two undercover detectives. A man still waiting to learn whether he would be sent back to death row.
Soon, the rules stopped applying to him.
Other inmates noticed. One of them wrote an anonymous letter and dropped it into a locked complaint box, certain it would bring everything crashing down. By the very next day, that letter was in the hands of the one man it was written about. And he was furious.
How does a letter escape a locked box? Who helped? And why do prosecutors say what came next was no accident?
Her own recorded phone calls reveal what she was thinking. It is not what you would expect.
To get the true picture of everything that happened…
