Steven Dominguez

I don't even get a biweekly check from corrections anymore.

I'm on freeze.

I'm still within the department innocent until proven guilty.

Once I'm guilty, none of that stuff exists.

I tell my mom, listen, I'm going to take the eight years.

And she's just like, right, like, is that the best?

Can you talk to somebody?

And I'm just like, Mom, I've exhausted everything I can.

The forensic psychologist, the lawyer, this and that.

There's nothing else we can do.

But I'm trying to sugarcoat it and tell her with the eight years I can apply for work release two years prior to my earliest release and I'll be home in six and blah, blah, blah.

Whatever.

We go to the court, and I get sentenced.

And I let the judge know and the people know I'm sorry for my actions, this and that, desperation.

Aspiration became desperation, and I'm just letting them know I made a mistake.

A lot of weight is off my shoulders.

I get back to Westchester County.

Two weeks later, I get sent to Downstate.

Downstate is the facility that they send you as like a reception.

So they classify you there.