largest maximum security prison where inmates volunteer to battle bulls but without special training in order to make money that's next year on r.t. . the prisons may be filling up but the schools certainly are not louisiana has the worst high school dropout rate in the u.s. and loses around forty students every day something your courage is i've not been able to stop. my greatest concern is what happens to the ones that are eleven and twelve and thirteen and fourteen fifteen years old that in the pipeline on their way in goa and as you can see in i was system we have a huge white line. and

. we treat our children. who worst of any state in the country overall way of the worst conditions for child welfare and then we punish them more severely than other states do we have the highest road so right of imprisonment so those kind of a i thought of it as being like oh like a reverse welfare system instead of taking care of them when we're young when they're young we ignore them when they're young and then we then we put them in prison and spend twenty thousand dollars a year keeping them walked in prison on my become adults it just seems like a very stupid social policy that may well we've done that for a long. jerry

couldn't afford a lawyer and spent four years in county jail before his trial there he pleaded not guilty ogling self defense but the prosecutor finally chancing with second degree murder. jerry was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

or. like jerry most inmates serving time it on gola come from poor backgrounds and were represented by public defenders. public defenders do the best they can with what they have but sometimes it's not good enough the constitution of the state of louisiana requires our legislature to provide funding for public defenders but they don't right now the public defense in this state is funded by court costs mostly on traffic tickets. it's amazing spirit to get a fair trial if you are convicted over a felony and the only access you have to your attorney is the morning that you're going to be going to court i mean that's not. that's not that's not very good representation because we have underfunded the indigent program. over the years i think you will find that many people like

a proper defense particularly those from in the indigent population. was. terry to show was arrested for possession of marijuana but chance with racketeering . to show couldn't afford a lawyer and was sentenced to one hundred years in prison and a one million dollars fine he spent eighteen months at angola before winning his appeal thanks to an outside benefactor. for my work and also. just for i'm just not a drug. or working person we're not mourning if you don't have the money now and you come for walker from the mob parish. we'll still try to go through

this though you were. once arrested poor defendants like terry face prosecutors with political ambitions and far greater resources than public defenders. john sinkfield this tough on crime prosecutor plans to run for district attorney of east baton rouge in two thousand and six. law and order dept of punishment for murders and a strong stand against crime the what i've done for thirty four years that's been very successful for me in that i'm the best at doing my case and one of the maybe. i could have been ruled and that's what it says. but it was exactly like the law said one of them. and i'll look at that every every time i think about it i was only a case out of the me but i still had to fight because they were looking for

a way. to give themselves a big name. from terry to show was lucky successful appeals like his very rare in louisiana this project been challenging you gotta hand it to daniel stanford is a criminal lawyer in lafayette he won the appeal for tell you to show stanford dislikes a legal system that links politics and justice to most powerful positions in any parish is the sheriff in the district attorney. they have all the power and so when you have all these people getting together statewide saying we want tougher laws we want the procedures changed in a way that favors us. it happens because that's popular in louisiana not only da's are elected but also state judges are elected out think that's the best way to have a prosecutor our judges to be elected by the people because then you're responsive

to the people and guess what people are losing don't solve prosecutors and they don't want to solve judges they don't kick you out if you're elected official and you've got elected under the premise of i'm going to be tough on crime. you commit crimes you're going to send you away as a matter of fact you will do we're going to jack up the penalties we need to put these guys away because that's what people have been pulled in this country in this state here so i'm just going to go along i'm not going to say the system is not working i'm going to stick to what got me elected you know tough on crime. to most life as the sentence actually means death by incarceration. louisiana has a pardon board that can theoretically recommend a sentence be commuted. but the board hardly ever does. in the last ten years

only to clemency is were granted out of four thousand inmates seven a life sentence. a laugh summer should mean a laugh sometimes i think they should dad and go oh it doesn't matter if they rehabilitate it they're there to be punished you commit a crime. someone murders your mother your wife your daughter then you want them punished and if the punishment is a laugh some it's done they shouldn't get out after twenty five years if they rehabilitate it i think that's good for them i'm happy for them but that has nothing to do with punishment the sentence as for punishment many people who are sitting in a goal with a natural life sentence. or easily rehabilitated. but because of our laws there are laws or or kane and their ancient. people who could come out and be productive in society will never have that opportunity.

they're going to sit in angola for the rest of their lives they're going to die nicola and if their family doesn't come in and remove the remains will be buried there so you have nothing to give all the timony. after i didn't. eat. it. all for. which i'm going to do it but it. needs to go oh i didn't. mean oh oh we mean that. you may want to person commits a crime no matter how many times people see you after they don't seem you they see

the crime committed over and over and over again when it's really not there when. i killed a man because i thought he was going to shoot me i cried and i prayed i was so remorseful i didn't want to live for a while. what do the people want to do to me from a mansion do they want me to kill myself do they want me to rot in prison for sixty years what will make them feel that i'm remorseful for my actions. maybe if he keep when they maybe if he can be a good model prisoner or maybe somebody to take an interest in him and let you safe .

if. he. sings almost like the roman days roman gladney it would people want to see the lions eat up to this life. and so. you know my spin on the road i've never liked or will never have like to really feel the cause of death because it's almost like people come to see you in your midst. it's important. to put their life. and time zones and they're

inside their premier octal would love it and for it they don't have prison rodeos that any of the prison in louisiana been in goa why because angola is the only place where people are serving life sentences with no hope of parole no chance of ever getting out these guys who participate in the rodeo have pretty much exhausted every remedy possible they know they're not going anywhere so what do they have to lose nothing you know in the prison is taking advantage of that fact you know the prison knows full well that it in any event there's going to be a certain amount of guys and you know going to get severely hurt possibly killed but that's ok after all they're not human beings as it relates to the rodeo they're just convicts and that's why they dress them up in stripes to remind the spectators don't be a warm if somebody is mangled by bull it's only

a convict rick. i don't care. if they're everything to lose their influence. and they think they have a good time. i think it gives them a few moments of feeling free what real value does it have for the average citizen of louisiana how does it make my community safer. how does it serve as an example by deterrent to some young person. who might end up in a life of crime. to have spectators going to be do is a real tough guy years a hundred bucks. it doesn't do any good. other than perhaps the resources that it brings to the prison. but we fund a prison. in april two thousand and five bill cain defended his rodeo at the warden convention. the rodeo is another program that it does

a really good thing in that it brings the public interest is see that people can change it bring the public in to say that the inmates are daemons it brings the public in to say how we spend our tax dollars that we spend it constructively it's a beautiful place it's beautiful flowers it's an environment for chad it's not the . bill kane sees angola as a showcase present on the day of the rodeo he seems to have a point a hobby craft market is held along with the rodeo the trustees are allowed to mix with the crowd and sell their work this display of talent to good behavior helps angola polish its image. medium security inmates are also allowed to sell their handicraft so this market is a win win situation for both the prisoners and the visitors as the visitors can buy cheap artworks and inmates can make money at.

this rodeo you know. on the streets and rodeo it's been a blessing. to be able to put the guys on the beat and make something. else you know. that's what history known. to me says you know. yeah it's great it's a great image people come in they see seventeen hundred prisoners at the rodeo so when harvey crafter taking photos or working concession booths and. no problems i mean there's just no problems. this clever marketing and who comes out looking like the good guy who of course the ward because he's more kidding himself to the legislature to the people in power saying hey because i did raise money for

the prison i don't have to come and ask you for money you know i make i get the prisoners to help me generate funds the budget going to write almost two million dollars gross necessarily we have a lot of expense that we have to pay for the road pay for the facility we have to pay for everything we have there so the net is not that much that will net enough to build a chapel and what would we need to build another chapel would be a church it with the profits from the rodeo non-denominational charities. and you can't miss them chapels built with rodeo money has sprouted all over and build. john robertson is head of the angola campus of new orleans baptist seminary bible college. the chapel. building program is more or less but it is so new. that it's going to be amazing in the future a follow up study is going to show i predict great results. in the chapel

fund. is going to make. a place for our inmate ministers to soar. that is going to be indescribably effective. we've only just begun to see you there isn't it an oxymoron a church that preaches or the face that proclaims protecting human life you know the unborn child all life is sanctity it is precious you know and yet they put these human beings in a position where they're going to get hurt possibly killed you know to raise money for the church is there a conflict of interest here is there a theological cuddling no not at all every time i drive up here to teach a class a risk. we're all going to live with.

the rodeo is one of the few ways for these men help. so they think in order to be able to fail it's worth the risk. will cain has been spreading religion throughout the whole penitentiary since one thousand nine hundred five. today and goal is dominated by religion and the bible college the only college education available in the penitentiary is inmates the do sign up for the four year course a set to become prison ministers. in the in this situation our only hope is god we all here doomed to die in this please. indeed destitute an outcast from society and that's not what it is because if we're being used by the creator of this universe

we're all more blessed than people that are free idea trying the same thing there. were. no rehabilitation other than more rehabilitation i can teach you to read i can teach you to write i just microsoft martyr criminal if i don't have morales in your heart this is harder than anything else she would have to do in the prison so this is not some hope to get out they've told us many times we're not trying to get you out of here we're trying to put you to be the leaders god has called you the right way to all. the energy be. in approach. the pro the wife amal the ballots to

the bible the koran. that really shined a culture because we had so many people that would reading to be and moral that it was the rails and so it was just like a disease he just thought oh and so the rest i'm so i'd say they started going to charge together they started love one another more they started they stopped didn't from one another they started being more people. if we were to have the roofline bill in the mirror. and bully it was stored. in her prison. this particular prison has a own going on alone going. it's the graft is always going there

but it has draw since the outset of the school forty percent. and when warren kane says that the other prisons in america are taking notice that's what they're noticing is this dramatic change in the behavior of the inmates toward each other. has changed. in the seventy's it was infamous for the rapes beatings mud isn't riots taking place behind it's raise a lot. today the level of violence has dropped and the prison seems to be calm. and i have a chance many times to go with churches in different places all over the place and tell the story of angola open to intrigue and what god is doing in this place and i want to tell you something as i tell that story what you are doing here is becoming evidence to people literally all over the world that where ever jesus he is there

is. the bible college graduation. once they have their degree they're assigned to one of the six angola camps to minister to the other inmates and to become missionaries in all the prisons in louisiana. we're going to go on every corner of this prison and and institutions in louisiana we're going to leave men we believe men and worship and prayer and we're going to preach the gospel and we will show biz of that away. and we are allowed to do certain things that other inmates that are not allowed to do because of our education and what our our mission is we are allowed to go into the cell blocks we're allowed to go and adama tours whereas other inmates can't do that. because of our training and background in the word of god we're able to go

meet the man at their point you know where their ad and minister to. god think i was or anything i know would be a look will go and go and prove me wrong you know he proved me wrong he said no you're worth much more than you you know he began so grow a new king just seen in his eyes in his stall to swallow his own memories and distain this game is just the present day guide on knowing scenic guide has over me and that is just so profound you see and people. i guess are honestly not afraid to die for christ if that means to be alone they'll be. their soldiers.

their one of those guys walk across the stage this morning. and promise you. they'll go anywhere. if you scream and losing you is oh really good so simple and plain fun the peace the preacher released in the flames pales hard to see as the bombers demons run enough from the inside buzz in the stomach my prediction the bin addicts in two thousand and jerry will probably never leave angola but he won't give up the rodeo plays a central role in his rehabilitation and get away from the people that trying and the father of all nation that was the word back to them. i see the only way as an opportunity to get exposed you know and when we see it is told you then those who know of course i was a little to the want to look into. while we're here because they'd be like man he's doing us. something highly you know look like a baghdad to me. jerry

has stopped into a track the interest of the american media he believes that his fame will help him find a way out of my. money i think there have been no somebody below for some people to have been in. the the.

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