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| Three former prison officers charged with providing sex, drugs, gadgets |
| By Chicago Sun Times |
| Published: 08/25/2003 |
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Three former prison officers--one of them a woman who allegedly dallied with killers--were charged in a sex and drug scheme last week in a case prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Levine. A reputed drug dealer who allegedly funneled narcotics to some of the crooked officers also was charged. 'You don't want a person serving a life sentence for murder to have the comforts of home,' said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. One officer, Robert Goodner, 28, of Chicago, was a Gangster Disciple and simply lied on his job application to the Illinois Department of Corrections in August 2000, federal prosecutors alleged. Goodner had no criminal record that would raise red flags when he applied at the department, a corrections spokesman said. Goodner was the first target of investigators, based on information from the corrections department. He bought two ounces of crack cocaine from an undercover agent Dec. 12, 2002. Goodner allegedly distributed drugs to numerous prisoners, many of them gang members. For one prisoner, a fellow Gangster Disciple serving a life sentence for murder, Goodner got 32 grams of heroin, 42 grams of crack, 7 grams of cocaine and 71/2 ounces of marijuana, some of which the inmate passed on to his fellow prisoners, the feds said. Goodner allegedly got about $715 from the inmate's colleagues outside of prison for his role as middleman. Goodner decided to cooperate with the feds and gave up another allegedly crooked officer, Tanya Flowers. Flowers, 32, of Chicago, allegedly had sex with at least two inmates, including one who was serving a life sentence for murder. While Flowers was having sex with the inmate in the bathroom of an inmate housing unit, another prisoner, who is a leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang and was convicted of murder, rape and kidnapping, stood officer to give the pair privacy. Flowers also had sexual relations with another officer, Steven King, 25, of Chicago, whom she gave up to the feds, along with alleged drug dealer Pharoah Spencer, 26, also of Chicago, according to court records. Flower's actions closed down the investigation of King and Spencer after she admitted to King in April that she was cooperating with the FBI. Roger E. Walker, the recently appointed head of the state prison system, vowed to root out corruption but when pressed, he offered no specifics on how he would change the scandal-plagued system. Walker declined to explain how a prisoner could have a cell phone, with a battery charger and headset, for six months without being discovered. |
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