Officer Lewis, welcome to Lockton. We're sitting here in Austin, Texas and Airbnb, and you just drove from Dallas, like a three or four hour drive to get here.

Yes. Thank you for having me here. And it's a great opportunity. And that's why I drove all the way down here.

Yeah. And be on your podcast. I appreciate it, man. I saw your request come in. I was booking all the like Texas guests because we have like the spreadsheet. And I was like, wow, this is an interesting story. Yeah, I saw some of the work that you've done. And I was hoping that I could be on your show and share my testimony and also speak for some of the officers and the detained that are no longer here. Definitely.

And you no longer work for the Department of Corrections at all or any jail or a facility?

No, I currently have a big lawsuit against them.

It's in the news.

It's in the media.

And that's what we're going to be getting into later in this episode today.

So did you grow up in Texas?

I grew up in Boston, and I moved here about 20 years ago.

Oh, you're a Boston guy. My aunt lives in Cambridge. So you know how we are, direct blunt to the point.

Yeah, I'm in Connecticut. So I go to Boston pretty often to film episodes and what? Revere and Lowell. I don't know if i said that right but yeah um so it's like a couple hours right is that is that is how they say rever it that's all they

say it oh shit i've bad at everything i always get ripped because i say except what is it exception

with an x but it's yes or EC that's wicked wrong yeah

exception I don't know how I say everything wrong um so wicked is a word that we use up there for everything

wicked wicked yeah that means like very extremely because of like Salem and like the witches yeah that's where I grew

up in okay gotcha who did you grow up with, mom, dad, siblings?

My mom mostly raised me and she was a single mom, worked a lot for General Electric, and she helped raise four of us.

And I had a stepdad too also worked a lot. But she taught us a lot of independence and to be

appreciative. For instance, for Christmas, we didn't have the best gifts. But a week or two after,

we had amazing gifts. She got them at 30, you know, 40% off. Were your siblings and you close?

Yeah. And we still are to this day.

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