Lou Charlestin grew up in the streets young and never really had a way out. In high school he got charged with armed robbery was tried as an adult and spent two years in prison before he was even fully grown. When he got out he slid into life as a male escort while still hustling in the streets — chasing fast money and living a dangerous double life. Then one night everything crossed the line. A violent situation that left someone dead and Lou facing a murder charge. The case eventually got dropped to assault and manslaughter — but he still ended up with a seven year sentence in Connecticut state prison.
In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, Lou tells the complete story — from growing up Haitian in a strict household to the streets to his first arrest to prison at 16 to becoming a male escort to living a double life to the shooting that changed everything to facing a murder charge to seven years in Connecticut state prison and what it finally took to come out the other side with something worth saying.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Male Escort Living a Double Life — Faced a Murder Charge — Got 7 Years in Prison — Lou's Full Story
00:42 Growing Up Haitian in a Strict Household and What the Wild Streets Looked Like Alongside It
03:05 The Beatings the Rules and What a Haitian Household Really Demanded
05:00 Growing Up Without a Father and Being Forced to Become the Man of the House
07:00 Going From Getting Bullied to Becoming the Aggressor and What That Shift Required
08:10 Being Smart in Class and Violent in the Hallways and What That Double Identity Looked Like
09:46 His First Arrest and His First Time Behind Bars as a Teenager
12:44 How Prison Taught Him Survival and Hustle at a Young Age
14:00 Choosing the Streets Over a Normal Life and What That Decision Really Meant
16:00 His First Gun and Getting Paid to Carry It
19:00 How Prison Changed Him in Ways He Never Expected
21:22 The Prison Tricks Traps and Getting Played Inside
27:40 Getting Out and Trying to Go Straight and What That Attempt Really Looked Like
29:39 How He Became a Male Escort and Entered That Underworld
33:20 When Escorting Turned Dark and Dangerous and What That Really Looked Like
36:10 Living a Double Life — Streets by Day Escort by Night
45:23 The Night of the Shooting That Changed Everything
47:37 Years Later Getting Hit With a Murder Charge and What That Moment Felt Like
54:44 Facing a Murder Trial and Thinking He Would Never See the Outside Again
58:12 Jailhouse Fights Politics and What Staying Alive Required
01:00:34 Being Alone in a Cell and Being Forced to Face Himself
01:04:09 New Prisons New Politics and the Same Old Danger
01:15:31 Walking Out Again and What His Second Chance Really Looked Like
01:18:36 Life With a Record and the Doors That Got Slammed in His Face
01:21:21 What He Learned From Prison and the Streets
01:25:58 Why He Is Finally Telling This Story Now