Inside The Inner Circle

From chapter 8, The Buddy Rollison Escape: All of a sudden, with no warning, a brown Pontiac driven by Rollison’s mother slides up near the control room. Out of the car comes Ms. Wyzykowski with a shotgun, firing shots into the control room wall. At the same time all of this is going on, Buddy Rollison is scaling an eight and ten foot wall gaining access to the top of the control room rooftop and weaving through and over the razor wire he recognized as minimal just weeks before. The perimeter officer spotted Rollison just as he was trained to do. Rollison should be an easy target for the officer armed with a shotgun and five rounds of double aught buckshot. Each shotgun round holds nine pellets, which when fired, will spread as they approach the target. One pellet is strong enough to knock a person to the ground if hit in the legs or knees. Instead the officer yells at Rollison, “Stop, stop!” as he fires all warning shots into the air and not once firing a shot at Rollison. Without missing a beat, Rollison jumps down the front of the control room and jumps into the passenger side of the car with his mother. Off they went just like Bonnie and Clyde, the wheels of the Pontiac throwing back gravel and dust in the face of the shotgun officer to add more insult to his day. As the Pontiac turns onto Highway 70 headed towards the town of Arcadia, the control room Sergeant Mary Mack was frantically calling the Florida Highway Patrol on the phone in one hand and calling for backup on the radio with the other. She gave the Highway Patrol the description of the brown Pontiac and the woman driving it. Sergeant Mack did all she could do considering the circumstances. She stayed calm enough to get all her emergency calls out even while the control room was under attack. I believe if Sergeant Mack was the one with the shotgun, Rollison may not have been able to get away. From chapter 11, The Cell Phone Ring: Suarez and Weatherford met behind the recreation building. Suarez told Weatherford he could supply all the marijuana they both needed if Weatherford could set up a connection with his plumber friend who worked outside the prison fence in the maintenance building. Suarez suggested that the marijuana could be packed inside the PVC pipe and plumbing elbows ordered by civilian maintenance employees on a regular basis. Suarez went on to explain that they could make fake shipping labels, mocking the real business labels used by plumbing companies. Suarez’s people on the streets would take care of packing the PVC pipe with marijuana and ship the packages. Once the packages arrived, Weatherford’s plumbing contact would be looking for it and seize control of the package. The PVC elbows would then be mixed in a bucket with clean elbows and walked through the back security gate undetected. Weatherford told Suarez, “What the fuck do I need you for? Why don’t I just do it alone?” Suarez replied, “Because you know I have big connections my friend, and we can both make a lot of money.” Weatherford never made a hasty decision and told Suarez that he would get back with him. Suarez replied “Okay my friend.” From chapter 14, Prison Love: Inmate Hasting continued moving in on Officer Davey as if she were prey, weakening with each encounter, and just waiting for the eventual moment that she would succumb to him. He wrote her poems of love and drew her pictures of roses and lovers walking the beach at sunset all accepted by Officer Davey. One evening when the other inmates went to the dining hall, Inmate Hasting stayed behind. He could sense a strong weakness in Officer Davey’s demeanor that he had never witnessed before. It was highly unusual for Officer Davey not to question why Inmate Hasting stayed behind. She went to check the cells, locked the doors to the dormitory and ensuring they were alone, returned to the dormitory. Officer Davey had fallen for Hasting. Inmate Hasting approached Officer Davey and kissed her. Officer Davey did not even pretend to resist. The kiss was like a match to unattended tinder, creating a flame that would spread into a wild forest fire.