Before I became a patrol officer, I started out and worked in a detention center. I had an inmate offer me $200.00 to bring in a pack of Newport cigarettes for him.

His hustle was to take one regular cigarette, break it down and make 7 smaller "pin" cigarettes. He could sell each pin cigarette for 10 dollars. That means that he could make $1,400.00 from a 5 dollar pack of cigarettes.

He thought that I was crazy for turning down the offer and said it would be the easiest money that I would ever make. I told him that he was right. But $200.00 wasn't worth my reputation and possibly losing my career. And if I was to get caught doing that, I would be ruined. No other agency would hire me and everything that I worked so hard and went to school for would be gone. So in essence, $200.00 doesn't look that appealing.

State prisons are notorious for corrupt guards doing this sort of thing. Then when an inmate gets transferred from a prison to a county jail for a trial or whatever, that inmate is likely to have contraband hidden in his anal cavity. He will poop it out and now you have drugs in your county jail. Happens all the time. Not just drugs either. Cell phones and weapons are smuggled in also.