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since for child welfare and then we punish them more severely than other states do we have the highest road so rate of imprisonment so it's kind of a i've 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 locked in prison on my become adults it just seems like a very stupid social policy that made the we've done that for a long. journey
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couldn't afford a lawyer and spend four years in county jail before his trial there he pleaded not guilty ogling self defense but the prosecutor finally johnson with second degree murder. jerry was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. like jerry most inmates serving time at angola come. from poor backgrounds and were
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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 spirit to get a fair trial if you're 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 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.
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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 dollar fine he spent eighteen months at angola before winning his appeal thanks to an outside benefactor. or can also. order for i'm just not a drug. or working person if you don't have the money now and you come from the mafia. it'll still try to go through this. once arrested poor defendants like terry faced prosecutors with political
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ambitions and fundraiser results isn't 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 in that i'm the best at doing my case and one of the media. that could have been ruled and that's what it says in the law but it was exactly like the law on him. and i'll look at that every every time i think about all of the only case out of the me but i have still had to fight because they were looking for a way. to give themself a big name. truck driver terry to show was lucky successful appeals like his very rare in louisiana this project challenging we got him thinking daniel stanford is
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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
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we're going to send you away as a matter of fact you will do we're going to jack up the penalties we're going 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 the sentence be commuted. but the board hardly ever does. in the last ten years only two clemens's were granted out of four thousand inmates seven a life sentence. a laugh some should mean a laugh sometimes i think they should dad and go oh it doesn't matter if they
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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 summit's then 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 son says 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 get all three to.
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act out of. it. oh and for. which i'm going to do it but it. just needs to go oh i didn't. mean all we mean but. you know when a 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
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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 action 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 live you safe. it.
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seems almost like the roman days roman gladney the people who went to see the lions eat up to this life. and so did you know my spin on the road you have never liked or never have like to really feel because of death because it's almost like people come to see you in your midst. it's important. to put their life. and time john sit there and say come here every year are filled with love it it's great they don't have prison rodeos at any other prison in louisiana but angola why because angola is the only
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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 war and if somebody is mangled by bull it's only a convict. i don't care. they don't have anything to lose their influence. and they think they have a good time. i think it gives them
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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 or a deterrent to some young person. who might end up in a life of crime if that's 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. we fund a prison. in april two thousand and five bill cain defended his rodeo at the walton 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 and just say that that the mh are daemons it brings the
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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 . will 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 them to craft so this market is a win win situation for both the prisoners and the visitors as the businesses can buy cheap artworks and inmates can make money and. destroy you and your. life. on the streets in order you it's been a blessing. to be a good guys on t.v.
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to make some. sense you know. that's what history. to me says. yeah you can just break it 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 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 giving yourself 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
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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 it will net enough to build a chapel and what would we need to build another chapel would be a church it was the profit from the rodeo non-denominational charity. 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's so new. that it's going to be amazing in the future a follow up study is going to show i predict great results. and the chapel fund. is going to may be. a place for our
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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 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 risked my life in my call. we're all going to live of was certain. 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
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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 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 place you know and be destitute and outcast from society and it's not what it is because if we're being used by the creator of this universe we all more blessed than people that are free i did try to say.
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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 horrid 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 your body we're trying to quit you to be to lead as 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 trying to culture because we had so many people that would reading about what n.b.a.
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and moral that it with a real in so it would just do they could just go and so the rest i'm so i'd say they started going to charge together they started loving one another more they started they stopped didn't from one another but they started being more people. if we were to the roofline bull in a mirror. on bully it was storms inner truth. this particular prison has a own going on their own going reduction of. the graft is always going down but it is draw since the outset of the school forty percent. and when worn cane says that the other prisons in america are taking notice that's what they're
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noticing is this dramatic change in the behavior of the inmates toward each other. has changed. in the seventy's it was implements for the rapes beatings mud isn't riots taking place behind it's race alive. today the level of violence has dropped and the prison seems to be calm. i have a chance many times to go with churches and different places all over the place until the story of the end goal open the gentry 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 but where ever jesus see is there is. the bible college graduation. once they have
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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 it is a vet away. and we are allowed to do certain things that other inmates are not allowed to do because of our education and what our 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 they're at in minister to.
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think i was worth anything i know would be a look would go it go and prove me wrong you know if you prove me wrong he said no you were much more than you you know he begins to grow again you can just see it in his eyes in his pocket while his memory isn't distinct it's again is that right then they guide and no one see that guy over here that is just so profound this is unthinkable. our guys 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. i promise you. they'll go anywhere you need to. if you scream and losing your kind it's all
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real long again so simple and plain to find the peace the preacher releasing the flames tales hot. the bomb is 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. and when he had his phone then both in ohio or so was a little nearer to the want to look into the room while we're here because they'd be like man he's doing something private you know look like a bag out of me. jerry
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has started to attract 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. i am the the a to. the to. the air
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