or inmates go toe to toe with the raging balls just to make a buck. 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 to angola 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 they have 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 were 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 locked in prison when they 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 arguing self-defense but the prosecutor finally johnson with second degree murder. jerry was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. or. like jerry

most inmates serving time at angola 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 stage is funded by court costs mostly on traffic tickets. it's amazing it's pretty hard 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 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 in the gym 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 johns 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. of the life mark and also. just for a just lot of drugs. or work in person we're not mourning if you don't have the money now you cough walk away from him up here. middle school and try to go through this though you were. once arrested defendants like

terry faced prosecutors with political ambitions and found 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 that what i've done for thirty four years that's been very successful for me and that i'm the best at doing it my case and one of the media. that could have been ruled and that's what it says a lot but it was exactly like the law said one of them. and now look at that every every time i think about 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 challenging you got him pictures daniel stanford is a criminal lawyer in lafayette he won the appeal for terry 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 elected but also state judges are elected out think that's the best way to have a prosecutor are just 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 got elected under the premise of i'm going to be tough on crime. you commit crimes we'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 told 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 a full thousand inmates in

a life sentence. a laugh some most of mine 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 dining

gola and if their family doesn't come in and remove the remains will be buried there so you're. going to give all three of them only. i've got to. eat. oh and. would you go and do it but it. needs to go oh i didn't. mean jamie oh oh we'd remember me but. you know one of person commits a crime no matter how many times people see you after they don't seem you know 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 for my actions 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 things maybe if he can be a good model prisoner or maybe somebody to take an interest say here on c n.

c. it was almost like the roman days roman glad when the people went to see the lions he's up to this life. and soul of the kid you know my spin on the road i've never liked the whole level of like to really know the cause of death because it's almost like people come to see you in your midst. spring. to life. and i'm just saying

come here every year are filled with love and support they don't have prison rodeos that any of the. prison in louisiana but angola 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 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 to somebody mangled by bull it's only a convict. i don't care. if they're having.

their increase. and they i think they have a good time. i think it gives them a few moments of feeling free what real value of as it have for the average citizen of louisiana how does it make my community safer. how does it serve as an example or a deterrent to some young person. who might end up in a life of crime it doesn't to have spectators going on so it would be due this is a real tough guy he has a hundred bucks i don't see any value it doesn't do any good. other than perhaps the resources that it brings to the prison. 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 in to see us is see that people

can change it bring the public and just say that that the mh 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 chat it's not the . bill cain season goal 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 this is can buy cheap artworks and inmates can make money at. this rodeo you know. nothing here. on the streets and for

you it's been a blessing. to be able. to be to make some. sense because. that's what history known. to me says. yeah it's great it's a great image people come in they see seventeen hundred prisoners at the rodeo so when hobbycraft are. taking photos or working concession booth and there's 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 getting himself to the legislature the people in power saying hey because i didn't 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 a profit from the rodeo non-denominational church. and you can't miss them chapels built with rodeo money has sprouted all over and building. john robertson is head of the angola campus of new orleans baptist seminary bible college. the chapel. building program is more was but 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 may be. a place for inmate ministers to serve. 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 inborn chyle all life is sanctity it is precious you know and yet he 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 conflict no not at all every time i drive up here to teach a class i risk my life in much. we're all going to live with certain risk. the rodeo is one of the few ways for these men to

help. so they think in order to be able to feel it's worth the risk. bill cain has been spreading religion throughout the whole penitentiary since one thousand nine hundred five. today and gold is dominated by religion and the bible college the only college education available in the penitentiary is inmates the do sign up for the full year of course a set to become prison ministers. in the in this situation our only hope is guy we all here doomed to die in this place you know in the destitute and outcast from society and that's not what it is because if we're being used by the creator of this universe we owe more blessed than people that are free i did try to say i

think. there is no rehabilitation other than more rehabilitation i can take you to read i can take you to write i just make a smarter criminal if i don't have more rally in your heart this is hoarded anything ocean would have to do. in the prison so this is not some hope to get out they've they've told us many times we're not trying to get you out here we're trying to put you to be the leaders god has called you the right way toward. the end ot be. in the pro. mood the pro the wife amal the to

the bible the koran. that really shined a culture because we had so many people that would rating to be and moral that it caught with the rails and so it would just do things they 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 dating from one another they started being more people. don't know. if we were to the roofline bull in a mirror. on bully it was storms in her birth. this particular person has a ome going on their own going reduction of. the grafters always going there but it is draw since the outset of the screw forty percent. and when worn cane

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. and go last has changed. in the seventy's it was infamous for the rapes beatings mud isn't riots taking place behind its rays a while. 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 until the story of the end goal open adventure e and what god is doing in this place and i want to tell you something as i tell that story what you hear 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 camps to minister to the other inmates and to become missionaries in other prisons in louisiana. we're going to go out in 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 you that is a better way. than. we are allowed to do certain things that other inmates that are not allowed to do because of our education and what our mission is we are allowed to go into the cell blocks were allowed to go into dolma tours whereas other inmates can't do that but 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.

think i was or anything i never did look would go and go and prove me wrong you know me well he said no you were much more than you you know he beat and so grow again you can just see it in his eyes in his pocket while his memory isn't distinct it's aim is that right then they guide and knowing scenic guide has all that is just so profound nice and people. i guess are honestly not afraid to die for christ if that means me alone they'll be all of. their soldiers. every one of those guys walk across the stage this morning. and promise you.

they'll go anywhere you need to. if you scream and losing your kind it's all real long again so simple and plain to find the peace the preacher released in the flames tales hot. in a bomb his demons run enough from the inside bust in the stomach my prediction the been 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 who live as outrank and the father of all nation that was the one back to that. i see the only way as an opportunity to get exposed you know and when he had his phone we've been told in ohio or so was a little bit to the want to look and tone while we're here because they'd be like man he's doing something positive you know look like a bag out of me. jerry

is down to do a track the interest of the american media he believes that his fame will help him find a way out by going. one day i think having to know somebody. some people have been. the of the.

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