Keisha A. Steed

An Eye for an Eye

Nurse Lucinda Mendoza pushed the medicine cart slowly down the jail corridor. She was working her usual 3-11:30 pm shift at Godwin T. Jackson Prison in Oakdale, California. It was time for medication pass, and she had to get to inmate pods to service them. This shift weighed heavy on her because Lucinda knew this shift was going to be different. She was worried, as Deputy Carr walked quickly ahead of her. On this shift, she was going to have to kill someone.