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we're going to be. all right heard thomas hodgson has been the sheriff of personal county massachusetts for over twenty years you get one thrilling area oh yeah and then six yards for yet another of those he's responsible for the county jails overseeing more than twelve hundred inmates not a. good. way to take you beyond the show you the classroom know it we have people who attend different classes and when i first came here they had t.v.'s in the cells the inmates could smoke basically would get almost as much food as they wanted and i believe that that that was the formula of failure. i believe that taking the tbs away taking away the weights which they had. giving them with sound attritional

meals but not as much as you want. and making sure they're focused on the opportunity to go to programs was the way to go. share of hodgson may look like any other law enforcement officer but sheriffs or politicians elected by voters. with the office comes considerable power. which includes how they run their child's already in. jail should never be a country club and anyone who spent time in our facilities will tell you you know the third this thing. from a country point and we know our approach is working you can be one hundred miles or even fifty miles apart between two different jails and your experience will completely different and be completely based on who is the sheriff in that county. there are over three thousand sheriffs across the country and there's a wide spectrum in how they do their job. hutchins' tough on crime approach may play well in elections but it raises concerns by critics who are worried about the

living conditions for inmates sheriff hodgson has done many things to humiliate prisoners and to deprive them of basic comforts putting them in chain gangs out on the street cramming them into small cells having them sleep on the floor charging five dollars a day for the privilege of staying in his facility. many sheriffs don't have term limits and wants to elected there are very few checks on their power however in most cases no one can fire them. in this episode of fault lines we look at what can happen when the power of a sheriff goes unchecked. they have this huge amount of autonomy huge amount of independence huge amount of authority they make decisions that really dramatically affect people's lives including life and death questions that always

breeds problems when you have a lot of authority and not a lot of accountability. re thomas hoshko is the longest serving sheriff in massachusetts but in recent years he's made news for the high suicide rate in the shelves human behavioral units where. there's could more control over the in the we also sometimes will conduct but we call eyeball watches here with officers. sitting watching that person the if they feel that there's a potential risk for saloon it doesn't mean it's show you're going to commit suicide but they may have suicidal ideations when we're told that we've been working with mental health put them on a watch word officers just watches that the whole time. for this officers assigned to sit in this chair and just monitor the person that's inside that cell for their

own safety. mental health watch is so punitive at bristol county it's worse than solitary confinement you're put in a cell with what's called a fergie or a suicide smock and no clothing you're watched constantly by a corrections officer who's period got you through a window that's it twenty you're in that cell twenty four seven that kind of response to suicidal feelings is what stops people from reporting it to begin with bonnie to a real low as a lawyer with prisoners legal services in boston organization is suing sheriff hodgson for housing mentally ill inmates and solitary confinement when you have serious mental illness you should not be in solitary confinement for more than a brief period of time and what we say in our lawsuit is they don't have the procedures in place to make sure that doesn't happen. the suit also alleges that

prisoners in bristol county jails are not getting adequate mental health treatment . we met a group of former inmates to ask them about their time in bristol county jail some of them are still in the criminal justice system and don't want to show their faces for fear of retribution if your mom asked how many guys here actually attempted suicide while they were in that jail. how many guys here thought about suicide while they were in that jail. everyone how do you how many of you guys were on meds when you went in there everyone was on meds when you went in there when you went in there were. able to stay on your your meds if they get the meds you need to work no no no no no nothing no no if you feel yourself slipping emotionally or mentally and you need mental health help what's the process what do you do to get it. right we have to go if you have to feel like a sick call. sports i think they have. one or two or three days to get

back you but sometimes i used to go weeks and weeks and i have to. put it in like one every day every day until they see me and so i was just about ready to hang get out. jochen for take was in jail in bristol county in two thousand and thirteen. he suffers from bipolar disorder. i don't know how hard it is just a bit. go you know bone tears in a soup kitchen. in jail been severely depressed joke him says he reached out for help while i wrote them a letter i wrote down not to help department i let him know that i had been feeling really really suicidal. and that i was going to go through with it. well. three days later i didn't hand nothing back

from them and then on that night i tried to commit suicide again they told me that they came and took me down they told me that they used those electric things to shock you back to life. and then. about to help the family fly me realize just guy is serious he's really trying to commit suicide. well at least eight people have committed suicide in bristol county jail since two thousand and fifteen. twice as many as other jails in massachusetts and three times the national average. we spoke to a woman whose partner of twenty four years killed himself while in bristol county jail. she didn't want to shore face on camera. so this was actually have a photo that we used at the service. because it was one of my favorite.

both of my. just because i look so grainy. michael ray was an inmate in bristol county awaiting trial in two thousand and fifteen or he suffered from bipolar disorder and had substance abuse issues and i have thousands of letter knock on my i mean i have boxes and boxes of letters so i just grabbed a few he wrote to his partner about conditions in the jail telling her that his requests for help work nor doubt he said you have to tell people this isn't right. and that's just one i mean he says it is. and. in this one. he tells me this is dated october nineteenth two thousand and fifteen and he said i think i'm losing my mind and don't know what to do anymore no one asks about me or answers my slips for help. i'm just talking. this is my only option of some

kind of therapy is writing you i don't want to die. i'm sorry i don't want to die but i feel like i'm dying from the inside already i love you because so much and i don't want to leave you. this was again about the mental health he's seen no one and has put in three more slept since then and this was dated december fourth so he had been almost two months. since he had quite enough left to literally cells like for months he's requesting you know until help support he's not getting it correct the one thing he says in all of his letters says that he wanted help and it never came on saturday june tenth two thousand and seventeen michael hanged himself in a cell michael is ultimately responsible for michael's actions i would never say that. tommy hodgson is the one what i would say is i don't believe that that

facility is ever going to change their practices as long as their leader is. mr hudson because i think that he really thinks that he does a great job. and that to me is so frightening and so sad. share of hearts and said that no cases of suicide or attempted suicide were related to a lack of medical or mental health treatment. after the death of my great share of hearts in order to do internal investigation into the suicides of seven inmates between two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and seventeen. the report found that all medical mental health and security standards were met i don't think that an internal review is a substitute for oversight there's no watchdog that's saying let's a look at these practices in the counties and say it's a real vacuum and self reporting can substitute for that you seem like a results oriented guy at the end of the day who should be held accountable for

a suicide rate that is that high and that different than other jails in this day and across the nation if you could identify something. that would say that our system. is failed. that that in fact is the cause or that we just don't have. the level of interest in taking care of the mental health case or whatever it is look i'm responsible for everything happens here on the share so i am all to believe responsible for everything if you can identify what it is at what point do you got to step aside because you have the duty of care at that duty of care isn't being taken care of in you don't get why who gets to step in and say we just need a new team here. well the put it all to believe the citizens do. i think it's a problem when law enforcement policies and incarceration are governed only

by popular opinion prisoners are protected by the constitution from that any kind of. popular impulse to unfairly punish i have never seen clear evidence that a sheriff faced serious electoral repercussions for the treatment of inmates in their jails you know sheriffs and hold an incredible amount of power and are allowed to run the jails in the way that they see fit and we see a lot of abuses in that we don't necessarily see those abuses show up in the next campaign cycle. in large parts of america sheriffs are the only form of law enforcement and do everything from morning to chills to patrolling the streets. but they also have a dark history. here in the south sheriff played a violent role in the jim crow era and is suppressing civil rights activists in the

one nine hundred sixty s. . to this day shares are still a remarkably homogenous group they are ninety five percent male and ninety nine percent white. in two thousand and eight the parish of iberia in southern louisiana elected a new sheriff can't afford he was a retired state trooper name lewis akhil saturday lewis echo sheer audacity you know we keep blaming the bottom or the top people on kevin broussard and whitney lee grew up here where we see a track and a lot of blacks. because this is coming here when you get to like. street that's when the whites out of town starts share facal campaign on a platform of reform but soon after his election he stripped away any internal oversight within the department. during his tenure ten of his deputies would plead

guilty to federal crimes. in two thousand and ten stablished a special unit to deal with what he saw as problem areas. it was called the impact team that was designed for waste impact was designed to telegraph the naval plane mpeg it st it was best get out street. packet three everybody knew about it either way you need a good three you go in because if you go on a bus if you get a call you'll be stopped and searched it was known that there were tuesdays and thursdays this weekend me and you would get off to st jude there is a car they come shares deputies with later testified to routinely beating up in making false arrest in the west end. but the abuses of power didn't stop there. as whitney leaf found out when he was awaiting trial in ny period parish jail in

two thousand and fourteen it started out simple enough they'd come in and they were going to. searches and strip searching kind of a shakedown type they claim burgess says when he leaves lawyer and has at least a dozen pending lawsuits against sheriff faculty the radio has had some breathing problems and medical they pull him out of medical become to be part of this shake down side toward say oh they want i got a good lover you treat me so i'll give it all up assess the way they feel a yeah ok so actually you are but then the officers started commanding them to get on their needs. and i want to be gross and put your ass in the air for your girlfriend and put your face down like you're praying for allah and you know just abuse general abuse but what is problem was when he was down in these positions he literally was having trouble breathing everybody got on up told us that a car can get out a mass arcade breed so i didn't have agreed with the right stuff would have a soda rabble all the saudi would you go get outside told us it now and i'm not you know so he grabbed my shirt and took out his listicle he hit me like about six

seven times i might be you know they became more and more frustrated as whitney didn't just crumble and cry and beg for mercy and the more we need not fighting back not resisting mage simply standing there calm which is used quite frankly remarkable as they are beating him oh it infuriated so the point they got so frustrated they backed up with a shotgun and shot a big beat beanbag bag round at him could be ten feet away the pain had to be enormous when you least sued di pieri a parish sheriff's office over the incident his case has recently been settled out a bit to a lot of things you know it kind of hurt you could i shot it but i never this shadow it took me to go to jail having a shot as the by the iberia parish sheriff's office started to come out the f.b.i. and the civil rights division at the department of justice started investigating so

essentially what happened is you had you had everything. saying from false arrest severe beatings in the jail to officers lying under oath for convictions to them what he dogs loose on prisoners in beating prisoners. i mean it's almost every crime that you can think of you know lying about evidence planting evidence literally beating people who are enemies of acol. after the department of justice investigated sheriff baca was charged with ordering the beating of inmates in the jail the conspiring to cover it up. his trial took place in the fall of two thousand and sixteen it was moved to another town three hours away. produces and was one of the inmates in the chill that day in two thousand and eleven. he's awaiting trial on a misdemeanor charge now he tells us he can no longer live with any sense of peace . skansen is for the. you know i'm afraid you stop in.

our own i don't know what up of that would have been then a could be what his motive is you know i can't trust that and i fear he will kill me shoot me beat me do something that happened to me two times a right it's not going to happen up there. but it may happen to you and i bury parish i would be in a chapel and i run like this in the jail in the jail. beaten down my neck adult and. this is security camera footage from the jails recreation yard that day. the guards were doing the shakedown taking inmates out of their cells and searching for contraband. curtis says someone near him insulted the guards the deputies thought the comic came from him lose apple walks in the door. a mustache this is business that apple tells it off the tedium things

that you know wow wow i make this office on my break. algal comes to the dog in my face but the dog who's on it. that's curtis it sure faculty feet. dog see a common. see now he knew it taught. this in the chapel. and cousin again. and got him again some tie in the cell come in he comes in and comes in a room current good on you. for what you saw me get on you in the right manner i you go there and when i do not you guys but tom program m m m m m m m m that man come on man what you doing there broke a dam. i would. leave it in the ground. on the ground and there's where they may have to f. and the men i did do is say. so you know i won't tell me oh no no boom

it with it's all right here the man with a piece of this and my make bomb and they may come or been brought in as we once were. you can take any any any month of. course but. now. may your fifth but not in maine fairburn well german live feed the big meet up in the air are likely to be perfected i mean here in the mr mean or the lowest crime a person could commit we. were got to produce mother dorothy you said that you'd been beaten until she says it took her two days to finally get the warden on the phone choose the morning i'll call back and then i asked spoto point.

and he told me missiles and i don't know who given you this information but nothing happened to curtis curtis is fine as it but i want to come over to helena see him for myself when no you can't come over here because it's against the end of this demand and you know you can't just see i'm a see it will look like i'm i have to go a little bit further than you baba alla maybe olim have later he called me back he said missiles and we're going to take him to the hospital silage me take him to the hospital i see is that bad bad he said well he got a few scrapes this in there but we're going to take him to the hospital just to have them checked though. it was two days before curtis was taken to the hospital. and had a fracture. broken. fracture rear.

fracture of my kneecap from a baton aspic. while they take you to the chair because i sleep sound like. no god you want to prevent it by going to you know cameras cameras going. home to. his dog off in the jail so they could take you in there from there to hide spot to do. the head is so planned out so good man and it was doing they were doing on a regular they were doing in the office in the not very impressed with tell me that . a cup want to be to a bar. with no way. a cup. if i have it in its head as a dent in thing going on in my grandma's house who are refused to call the police but. refuse akhil told them to do it after directed us to do it this way no other way this way. and that was you know in the studio

a share of evaporated prairie i don't understand how certain are you that apple ordered the beating her tail there. to deal with meat hardly it was the car in the. during the trial of former deputy sheriff been the cell testified verifying the details of curtis a story he also said that ordered the beatings. sheriff baca was tried before a mostly white jury he was acquitted of all charges after the trial he blamed his deputies. want to get the disease did. was help eliminate rule through that period parish sheriff's office who went beyond the law. and you know innocent people. when the drugs on innocent people and stouffer drug dealers to those. that is totally opposite of what i am in one of them. he declined our

interview requests. would ten of ackles deputies behind bars for their crimes the city of new iberia has voted to replace the sheriff's department with a new police force. lou sacco continues on a sheriff of the parish and is still in charge of the jail. while we were filming in southern louisiana five more sheriff's deputies from nearby towns were arrested for beating prisoners. it's not shocking anyone there's no ripple effect there's no way there's no outrage i mean think about you're down here for just a number of days and two different departments within sixty miles of here five deputies arrested for abusing prisoners. i mean i would think in another part of the country and maybe a bigger media market or whatever but i'm it made the news don't get me wrong but i don't i don't know for people that slow down for. even years after

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