Steven Dominguez

And these guys know that you're new.

They've been there fighting their case two, three years.

People don't think that you're on Rikers for that long.

I've seen inmates on Rikers six, seven years fighting their case.

Before, way before I even got there, because I was only able to do four years in eight months.

So I'm there and I'm on the wheel tour, which is 7 to 3 one week, 3 to 11 another, 1 to 9 one week, 11 to 7 in the p.m., 5 to 1 p.m.

It's rotating.

And this is a good and a bad thing, because now you're learning the jail, you're learning policy and procedure, you're learning...

Post that if they throw you in there, you already know what to do.

So you're kind of using this really as the on-job training I'm working the rec yard in the mess hall and I'm getting really cool with these inmates and by cool.

I mean, I'm 21 22 years old

Afro-Latino.

I'm from Queens.

My dad moved to Harlem.

I was able to navigate the city at a young age, just playing sports with my friends.

I was very relatable.

Working on Jamaica Avenue, I saw a lot of these guys that were in street life, that spent their street money on Jamaica Avenue, that they would see me now, and they would be like, wow.

Don't I know you from somewhere?

Didn't you mess with this girl?

And, you know, I become like a fan favorite in a sense.