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Since you are originally from NYC, do you remember the Kitty Genovese murder? When I started in Corrections at Auburn prison, her murderer, Winston Moseley was there, and he was an Administration Building porter, which meant he got to go up front every day to work in a building where the Superintendent, and Deputy-Superintendents, along with all the female clerks, secretaries, etc., worked. That always bothered me, because when he was at Attica, while being taken to the outside hospital for a self-inflicted injury, he escaped from C.O. custody, stole one of the officer's pistols after beating him with it. He later broke into a couple's home, tied up the husband, and repeatedly raped the woman over several days before finally being caught.

I'm a female, and I knew who he was before I'd even been assigned to Auburn. Moseley thought he was a ladies' man, acting very smooth, and suave. As a rookie hack, from time to time I would have to relieve the officer on the Wire Gate post so he could have lunch. Moseley would regularly pass by on his way to work in the Admin Building. I always asked for his ID card, and he'd try to get out of having to show it to me. Our name tags had our first initial and then our last name on them, and one day he tried to strike up a conversation with me, and asked me what the K. on my name tag stood for. I told him it was none of his business, and he left. Later, I wished I had told him it stood for "Kitty," just to see what his reaction would have been...but I was too new, and still too green to have even thought of it at the time. The guy was a slime ball, and I praised God when I heard that he had finally died in prison in March 2016.