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She Was the Crystal Meth Queen of Waikiki. Then She Became a PTA Mom in New Jersey.
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Inside Prison: The Runner Who Was a Guard and the Drug Trade Within
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Prison, for Nikki, was not an escape from the world she had inhabited — it was a continuation of it. The drug supply flowing through the facility where she was held had previously run through her. When she arrived, her former runner, now working as a prison guard, was doing the paperwork processing her intake. He recognized her name, pulled her from her cell that first night, and placed two bags of commissary down in front of her. The message was delivered without a single explicit threat: protection and commissary in exchange for silence; silence as the only option that kept her alive. Nikki understood instantly. She also understood — with a clarity she describes as almost darkly comic — that she had the information to dismantle the entire operation. And that using it would almost certainly get her killed.
On her first night in prison, guards dragged Nikki out of her cell and put her in a room. The door opened: it was her former club runner, now a prison guard. He placed two bags of commissary down and made clear — without a word of threat — that her silence was expected.
