My name is Ian Bick and you are locked in with Ian Bick. On today's episode, we interview our first

correctional officer, Steve Purcell, to get an inside look at New York Department of Corrections

and life as a correctional officer. We all make mistakes, experience failure, and fall down in life.

But if you decide to get back up and use it as fuel to your fire, you could choose to not

let it define you.

You can make it through to the other side and turn it into an opportunity.

Join me, Ian Bick, as I interview people from all over the country who have experienced the rock bottom of

the American justice system and find out what they did to overcome it. These are the stories

that will motivate you and inspire you to change your life. Steve, welcome to Lockton with Ian Bick.

Thanks, man. Thank you for having me. You are our first CEO correctional officer on the show,

so you are in the hot seat. I don't think you probably ever thought you'd be interrogated by

an inmate today, but the tables are reversed and we'll get right into it. I always like to kind of

like start at the beginning of the stories. In your case,

like we're essentially starting from your beginning as like a correctional officer. How old

are you when you decided you wanted to become a correctional officer?

So my dad joined corrections in 98. I was six years old.

Grew up around it.

You know, it's not like, oh, I want to be a cop. I want to be a firefighter.

My mind was set. I want to be like my dad. I heard the stories from him,

all his buddies that he would work with, you know, they'd meet up at the house, they'd talk. It was

the camaraderie and all that stuff. And once I got older, you know, 16, 17, I said, this is what I

want to do. I want to do follow my's footsteps, and I'm going to do it.

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