Inmate Reveals How He Became A Correctional Officer | Louis Essig

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Ian Bick

Society & Culture

4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Louis Essig shares his journey of hitting rock bottom, spending time in jail and how life came full circle for him as he ended up as an officer at the same jail he was incarcerated in. Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ Connect with Louis Essig: Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@getagrippodcast614 YT : https://youtube.com/@GetaGripPodcast614 Instagram : @louisessig Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/louis.essig?mibextid=ZbWKwL Creative direction, design, assets, support by FWRD: https://www.fwrd.co Buy Merch: https://lockedinbrand.com Use code lockedin at checkout to get 20% off your order Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:42 - Growing Up in a Small Town 00:11:54 - Unprecedented Experiences at Grand View Schools, the Beginning of using 00:18:13 - College 00:24:17 - Overcoming Background and Stereotypes 00:30:03 - Feeling like I didn't belong at college 00:35:57 - Life as a Dealer 00:42:08 - My Experience in Jail 00:48:16 - The Ham Sandwich incident 00:54:12 - Homelessness 01:00:18 - The Breaking Point 01:06:24 - The Cycle of Jail Sentences 01:12:12 - The Hustler Mentality 01:18:13 - Working at the Minimum Security Prison 01:24:31 - Respect from the Inmates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.6	UK. I was laying in my bunk and this dude in the dayroom army crawled under this guy's bunk and stole his ham sandwich. Okay. And so dude wakes up to
0:40.9	eat his ham sandwich. He's like, where the ham sandwich? So now everyone's trying to figure out
0:45.4	who stole the sandwich. I'm sitting there. I know who did it. I don't give shit. I'm just watching
0:49.7	this shit laughing. And eventually they figured out it was him. when I tell you I watch this dude get his
0:56.0	face just I mean I've never he got jumped he sound like I've never heard a human being make
1:01.8	the sound that his body made he sounded like a dial-up modem
1:04.6	welcome back to the Locked-in with the Invik podcast on today's episode.
1:18.3	I have an interesting story for you guys.
1:20.4	We have Lewis Essig, who's here to share his story of addiction, run-ins with the law,
1:25.8	and the entertaining stories of prison that come along with it.
1:28.6	But what's fascinating about Lewis's story, and it's the very first of its kind on the show,
1:34.3	is that after Lewis gets out of prison, he becomes a correctional officer as a felon himself.
1:40.4	So we get to dive into that dynamic of what it's like to become a correctional officer as someone who is formally incarcerated.
1:48.6	So it's going to be an entertaining episode.
1:51.0	And I hope you guys sit back, relax, and get ready to lock in with Lewis S.Egg.
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