largest a maximum security prison where each sunday in october volunteer inmates battle bulls but without special training just to make money. it's complicated and brutal event gladiatorial of an. emptiness of all the in this dignity in these me i'm. lucky it's nothing but exploitation of people who have no choice. see. the last summer samina life sums up my patient data and go. to see

what he plans on opportunity to be an example. it's a long way to those gates and once man reach there they know they're just so so far away far away from our vision far away physically far away among. louisiana it's more than five thousand men considered the most dangerous criminals in the state a locked up in this penitentiary. inside the inmate population

is eighty percent black and comes mostly from louisiana's poorest neighborhoods. nine inmates out of ten a serving sentences so long that they're going to die and. they go into the fall eighteen thousand acres the largest maximum security penitentiary in the united states. in the eighteenth century angle was a slave plantation. it took its name from the origins of the slaves who came from mongolian africa. today any incoming prisoners first assigned to hard labor in the jails.

no no no pocket knives no cell phones no x.x. no weapon. five times ten thousand people gather at angola to watch the prison rodeo a rodeo for the prisoners inside the prison they don't started in one hundred sixty five and today it's the only rodeo allowed in a u.s. prison it's gone the while the show in the south. so. will cain is the man behind the success of the rodeo. in the last decade cain has

transformed the rodeo into a massive money spinner for his prison. warden k. . a southern baptist is a popular figure in louisiana in two thousand and three his peers voted him warden of the year. i'm ok a pound and i wanted their baby or me and them are the five you know we're in this together i'm doing tam good though it there at the buy it and not oppression is there if that we really are are locked together at war i look forward to it the font tab i like the feeling of basic self not just the people crap with them i never forget the big about crime they're here because of crime victims but still we can be rehabilitated program because the rodeo paid. the inmate cum bowings volunteers. but each rodeo around fifty of them signed up to face the bulls on wild horses the rodeo is considered

a special treat for the business only those with a good record are allowed to enter the arena. and it's almost like fredo for me in a galaxy far at any event i do will i'm now behind balls about how can they create this special case when a mess was created going to take a look at us you know you know all i've been taking away from this is. the rodeo gives the inmates the chance to see them families outside the prison visiting area even though they're not allowed to touch their loved ones this one official visit is something a lot of inmates look forward to. in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight this journalist published an in-depth book on the angola prison rodeo. these men are not. seen

even often by their own families once they passed the ten or fifteen year mark of their sense so here comes this event once now twice a year where the stadium is packed or society comes and these inmates take that chance to be seen because. i feel. almost. any seat but. this exposure has a price most inmates come from urban areas of louisiana and have never been around bulls old horses little being locked up in angola and despite them lack of previous rodeo experience none of them is allowed to train.

i think there's a programmer's aspect to it definitely i mean look you've got convicts who are not trained who are quite likely to get hurt and a crowd that's coming there to see the oddity and perhaps the perverse that of it that is troubling to say the least. her.

wacken me trying to read it without trying in my did we have to rip the doc to come here is not our cattle contriving time out open mike you better rather we put on our own home we have prepared to apply own and you'll see today i don't expect anybody going to be our very badly if at all. like the. people really wants to see. somebody get flipped by the pool you know somebody get through by the horns. and. nora's henderson spent twenty seven years of angola but never took part in the

rodeo today he works as a paralegal in new orleans. just by the grace of god there's nobody has actually been killed in the situation. as they have been maimed i've seen guy as we have been kicked in the face by a homeless kicked in the face by you know who would buy a bull. but some of these guys just continue to put to supply you know what motivates them you know lord knows i know some of them go out there for the simply for the prize money. simply in it's not that it's a fortune it's the fact that in prison one hundred dollars is a lot of money. hundred dollars can sustain a person in prison for years is basic needs for alone time. whether paid for inmate labor is about twenty five cents an hour most inmates are more than willing to clash with the bulls for the biggest prize money some cowboys use they winnings to improve their life in prison some spend it on legal fees of ascended to their

families. it's time for a comeback poca the premise is simple the last man sitting at the poker table wins the two hundred dollars pot. i do for the money and for the excitement you have to i mean s. what is about to come out and compete if you want to do want to compete you want to win and part of what it is. sacrificing is some time to review your own body you have to sacrifice to get what you get back. on. his dad must have some suicide attempts. you know they're trying to. maneuver fourteen hundred two thousand. to two hundred.

bullets. we've talked to guys about the rodeo why did you do it and there is there's just not one concrete answer. to carry my as it's been locked up in angola for the past fifteen years as editor in chief of the prison magazine miles has covered many rodeos. some of it is is the is a recognition you got a guy who a lot of people in prison have low self esteem they don't feel like they've ever accomplished i think one people out there to see that they've done something in here but they're more they're worthy of something that they're actually not worthy of. being human i know on the one hand is this

moment when the man get this chance at transcendence and redemption but on the other side the rodeo is now conducted in these striped shirts which were always a symbol of sort of the. totally separating the end mates from society totally separating them from any image of humanity those striped shirts were abolished in the one nine hundred fifty s. and gola for precisely those reasons of being excessively degraded brought them back i don't think that's something that thrills the conflicts though they probably won't say. this is the human. this strikes on the human. life you know nothing. was said. jerry brown's favorite event is the guts and glory. the inmates have three minutes

to grab a chip off of a two thousand pound raging bull the winner gets three hundred dollars i. mean after the peaceful. but it's time where you have to get aggressive you've got to get back. look at him like that. just don't tell you that i look at him like the obvious. god works through me and we did. this made me. so made good use they do with just glory god will be there with. jerry is twenty eight locked up since ninety ninety five he's serving a life sentence since he first entered the competition in two thousand. brown has

become a celebrity. doing a good job. in a way i feel like alone i'm alone here i feel like i'm on a plane. you know because the level of education is different my process was on different. aware care of myself and different you know. what i have to offer society in very different. jerry brown decided to get an education in prison he reads books writes poetry and especially letters which is the only way to avoid censorship but the goal. when i mentioned i wanted to be an example i meant to beacon of hope inspiration in courage meant and six us to all those that chose to watch and witness said. this type of example is

needed here in a place of such does elation disparity and neglect. and i'm glad when i came up with violence around you all day whether you are going fighting someone against their family can share is invalid violence while when i face the board i'm not scared. mean it is easy. someone managed to. steal breathe gospel for sure he'll get well reason my destiny was a life. among. its journey grew up in one of the pools like my old city in three full time. it's just down to a town and his mother was

a drug addict jerry had to be raised by his older sister and his grandmother. as a kid to try to escape his drug and gang infested neighborhood by rapping you. know he. just chemically. to be pretty good. to each good teacher but if you. treat me pretty charles ramsey is jerry's brother in the thames a small studio as jerry was growing up charles was the first one to believe in jerry's talent and i believe you know key with. that he was. and he just. you know took it from you know. you know if he'd of been out of mystery to me. you know he.

is listening. to my right. i'm more about jerry pencil and paper. you know i learned to pencil and paper that i was the most important woman is. bunny brown jerry's mother has been on probation for four years. since her release from prison she's been fighting for the right to go to angola and visit jerry the son she hasn't seen in ten years he loved me more than anything. and. when things took a turn for the worse for me. it took a turn for terry for the just. so. my personality is built around seen around the set

a young age when i was small like. this guy used to be my mom the palm of time right in front of us knew him well you know and for me what he. was not known was bad it was creating a lot of anger in me because i was so small and i couldn't help him and he moved on boom boom boom i became a drug advocate crack addict. and a good indeed jerry was constantly in fights concerning his mother. over there oh oh sure. and there's. this ole. if you'll fold now the human haven't any. role models anything he didn't really have anybody to. relate to his his family members that were all oh mostly in and out of jail all of his life incarcerated. to get him.

to make it to the. addicted to. beg the he will be a part of the gang in the toilet. i give him. to tell him you know i have a. place of protection i would not because the. at first we used to be to go out of ten like a fast go to work and so between a native night i really would never fall and you know and he just had to do and if what he thought he had to do and he became a poet again. as a teenager jerry joined a gang on june the sixteenth one thousand nine hundred five a man you want to deal goes bad jerry shoots and kills.

on the day of jerry's arrest it was bunny who convinced him to end this standoff and surrender. louisiana has one of the highest crime rates in the united states legislators adopted a tough on crime approach to try to solve the problem they've stepped up arrests and convictions since the seventy's been made population in louisiana has increased by one thousand percent. the culture of louisiana is one that. does not prepare people in general for success in life the culture is one the prepares people for success and prism. louisiana also has the highest rate of inmates by capita in the world the state has around eight hundred prisoners per one hundred thousand people that's ten times

more than countries like france or germany. look fausta a professor of criminal justice has been a regular visitor to angola for the past twenty eight years. he's an expert in corrections systems. legislators who are primarily. it's primarily why primarily coming from smaller cities smaller towns and rural areas who are making laws designed to protect the people of louisiana from crimes committed mostly about poor people living in cities many of whom are boy probably in this room within the next few years one of you will be murder if you believe this. and i say

this tough on crime approach enjoys broad support in louisiana a majority of the citizens believe the tougher laws and permanent and concentration on needed to beat the criminality in this state. community do you realize. we're locking our sales up instead of criminals we're putting our sales behind bars we're building their territory walls around our stuff why because we're afraid of the criminals out there we pray to what happened to us like they should be locked up and we should be able to walk around streets we do we have a strong sense of family and family values and lose alice that's that if you abuse or murder one of our family members then we want you to be punished. sentence is a tough eighty nine inmates sit on death row and i'm going. since nine hundred seventy

two whole life sentences without the possibility of parole. louisianan still cost his life sentences for murder aggravated rape. kidnapping and the so-called third strike presidential attendance. cravings democratic state senator of the louisiana has been fighting since one thousand nine hundred two to try to reform the legal system in his state. we fear i mean we fail miserably because we have not provided a better community we have not transform the lives of those young people especially who make mistakes we've not given them an opportunity to redirect their lives so what we do is we tend to believe that if we lock them away a lock them up and throw away the key that somehow we're going to be safer i don't think our system is failing it just means that our culture demands

a different criminal justice system than they have in your bennett demands the death penalty or. the grumbles will be out of control in this country if we don't take a very stance. as you may or may not know a child whose parent is incarcerated has a five time greater chance of want to present themselves so we are creating generations of new in sometimes even worse criminals. and and and we paying for it and we paying for it miserably in. this prison policy is costly. in two thousand and five louisiana budgeted six hundred million dollars for its prisons including around one hundred million for angola.

in april two thousand and five new orleans hosted an international warden's convention for three days wardens from across north america shared their experiences and told business. it gave them the opportunity to shop around for the latest security systems for their prisons. and go lays looking at their needs are not need the fence fence that's give you a shock and then change to anything more than then we'll kill you big business each dollar cost two hundred fifty thousand dollars four thousand million dollars he of just to maintain you put a system like that. to get to what actually is very big if we can afford to incarcerate our murderers but there's a bigger cost if you don't there is a cost to sat in pain and suffering in misery there's a cost and terror and fear. in we don't want these people out so if the prisons are overcrowded then we should build big ones if you've been down

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