Steven Dominguez

I had this housing area steady now three months.

But as the escort officer, I'm able to kind of roam free throughout the prison.

I'm still seeing the general population inmates that I encountered from my first couple years on the job.

And my seniority level is up now because, like I told you, the classes are coming back and forth.

So people think that I've been there way longer than I actually have been.

And I gained that notoriety, and I kind of used it to my advantage.

Throughout my time on Rikers, I've had a lot of inmates propose to me, hey, do you want to make money on the outside?

Yeah, right.

You want to bring cigarettes, tobacco, loose tobacco, maybe this water bottle full of vodka, like...

You know, I'm good for it.

I can make you money.

And throughout my first couple of years, I'm just like, I brushed it off respectfully.

I never alarmed someone and called my warden and said, hey, listen, this guy is, no, because I'm too cool for that.

Like, no, man, like, I'm good.

I'm not going to sell you my integrity.

I worked too hard to get here, you know.

So.

I'm roaming free one day and I'm waiting for one of my inmates from my housing area to get out of the visit.

Inmate that was there

The entire three years that I've been a CO at this time, he's been there fighting his case.