Kids refuse to lock in. So I grabbed the first kid who was six foot five, two hundred and sixty-five pounds, 16-year-old kid. And we're tussling on the ground. He gets me on the ground and he actually jumps on my back and drops his elbow into my spine.

Nick Batisse thought he was stepping into a stable government job until he saw the system from the inside, from inmate fights to broken

policies, he exposes the dark side of juvenile corrections and how it changed him forever.

Nick, welcome to Locked In, man.

Thank you, and I appreciate you having me.

Yeah, I appreciate you coming, man.

Thanks for being the listener of the show. You're just telling me how the pee-wee Hells Angels episode is what got you on to us. Yeah, I was watching some TikTok reels and I saw the interview. I was like, wow, I really got to check out this podcast. So started listening religiously. That's so cool. Was it the clip where he did like the bubbling sound effect on the road? Yeah, who would have thought, you know, that did like 20 million views.

Oh, wow.

I think it's because he just perfected the bubble.

Yeah.

He was quite a character.

Are, like, crime prison shows, like, of interest to you normally?

Not really.

You know, spending the time in my profession that I did, I kind of avoided, you know, watching any of those shows. I did start watching, you know, spending the time in my profession that I did, I kind of avoided, you know,

watching any of those shows. I did start watching, you know, the 60 days in, locked in kind of piece.

So those were interesting seeing the difference of what I experienced versus what other people

were going through. So did you like 60 days in?

I did. I think there were cool parts of it. Other parts was like, uh, you know, some jails are all dependent on who is there and the politics and things that happen. So I've never watched a full episode. I've just always seen like the clips on TikTok and stuff. I don't know if I would actually do 60 days in though. Yeah, it looks, uh, looks interesting. But from a, you know, correctional standpoint, I don't know. Maybe I could

stay in there for 60 days locked into a jail cell since you worked at it. Yeah, they do have guards that go on in cops. I've had a cop that was on the show and I've had guards that were on the show too. Yeah, I watched the one the interview you did with the Rikers, uh, C.O. Yeah, yeah, well, and he killed it.

I mean, he was fantastic in there.

Yeah, he ruffled a lot he killed it. I mean, he was fantastic in there.

Yeah, he ruffled a lot of feathers because he has a very distinct, passionate opinion on inmates and whatnot.

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