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Inside My 5 Years as a Rikers Island Prison Guard | Isaiah Finnie

Locked In with Ian Bick

Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9606 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Isaiah Finnie describes his five years as a Rikers Island prison guard, the violence he witnessed, and the challenges of working in the system. #PrisonGuard #RikersIsland #LifeBehindBars #TrueCrime #LawEnforcement #BrutalReality #CrimeAndPunishment #Survivor Connect with Isaiah Finnie: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rozay111?igsh=MTR3eGFxN2x5ZjUwMA== Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Presented by Tyson 2.0 & Wooooo Energy: https://tyson20.com/ https://woooooenergy.com/ Buy Merch: https://convictclothing.net/collections/convict-clothing-x-ian-bick Timestamps: 00:00:00 Inside Look: Rikers Island Life from a Correctional Officer's Perspective 00:03:33 Challenges in Law Enforcement and Corrections 00:07:24 Becoming a New York City Correction Officer at 21 00:11:08 Growing Up in New York City: Choosing the Right Path 00:15:02 Challenges in Correctional Training 00:18:42 Relationships Between Correctional Officers and Inmates 00:22:41 First Experiences on the Job 00:26:43 Surrounded by Inmates: A Scary Encounter 00:30:20 The Reality of Being Mace-Sprayed 00:34:04 The Story of My First Real Fight as a CEO 00:38:00 Conflict Between New and Experienced Officers 00:41:51 Corruption and Contraband in Jail 00:45:33 The Flawed Criminal Justice System 00:49:14 Unveiling Workplace Corruption 00:53:02 Challenges in Correctional Facility Employment 00:56:47 The Hidden Valor of Correction Officers Powered by: Just Media House : https://www.justmediahouse.com/ Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.6

Isaiah welcome to locked in brother thanks up in thanks to quell for connecting us man shout to my brother

0:35.8

quell they was doing him dirty in the comments. I came to defend his honor, man. Yeah, man. Well, I mean, we were just talking that. He just, he meant well. It just, it came off the wrong way. He, first off, everything he said was 100% true. I think he, he came off a little bit too strong, so the people in the comments kind of got

0:57.0

rubbed the wrong way, but that's my brother and I support everything you said. Yeah, I thought

1:02.0

it was a real honest interview from a correctional officer's perspective. You know, I didn't see

1:07.0

anything wrong with it. Right. And everyone's titled to their own opinion. And we have both sides.

1:11.4

We equally have inmates that say, you know, guards are terrible and this and that.

1:16.0

So it's just the other side of it.

1:17.2

You got to have a balance.

1:18.4

Exactly.

1:19.0

And if you get the insight from anybody, it's important to get it from somebody that knows both sides.

1:30.1

He's a young black man that's from the hood. You know, he, he, so he knows both sides. You know what I'm saying? So it's like

1:36.8

they kind of was going extra hard on him, but he said right, you know what I mean? Now, you guys met at

1:43.1

Rikers Island too. Yes, I met him at Rikers. Except you weren't I mean no you guys met at Rikers Island too yes I met him at

1:45.9

Rikers except you weren't an inmate you were at actual office here I was an actual CEO on I was in

1:53.1

there from 2016 to 2021 where do you grow up big queens New York who do you grow up with um my family New York. Who'd you grow up with?

2:02.3

My family, you know, I had my mom in my life.

2:05.3

I have my pops in my life.

2:06.5

I'm real big family, so yeah.

2:10.6

And any siblings?

2:12.4

Yes, I have two sisters, an older brother, and a younger brother. Did they go and work for the city at all? No. You were the only one. Yeah, I was the only one. My pops is actually AMCO, so I kind of follow his footsteps. Currently a CEO? Yes, he got a year left. At Rikers? At Rikers. You got to tell him to come on the show when he...

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