By Gary Buiso
NY Post
NEW YORK — Robin Kay Miller spent 20 years working as a city correction officer, locked away in a seedy world of rampant sex, drug abuse and back-stabbing.
And that was just the guards.
Miller, 53, who retired in 2005, says she’s not surprised by the latest stories of criminality among correction officers — including three current and former Rikers officers charged after a city Department of Investigation probe into a guard network that smuggled drugs and violently attacked inmates.
A federal probe branded the 11,500-inmate jail a “broken institution” where guards routinely use excessive force and violate teen inmates’ rights. Less than a month after the Aug. 4 report, Florence Finkle, the commissioner overseeing investigations at Rikers, resigned.
And following the 2¹/₂-year Department of Justice investigation, Mayor de Blasio last week signed into law a bill that requires correction administrators to track and publish data on the use of solitary confinement.
Now Miller says she’s ready to relate her own shocking experiences, which she says are symptomatic of a system infected for decades.
“This culture started long before the problems we’re seeing today,” she tells The Post. “It became a blueprint for what we see today.”
Full story: Drugs, sex, and violence: My hell as a Rikers guard