three hundred kilometers from new orleans far away from tourists jazz and muddy ground the small town is the gateway to state prisons in a city of seven thousand seven hundred arrests in two years a very large number of federal authorities investigate through this man. john came back. some. closer but. you know again. ok i'll go pay a bag by now. he's looking for witnesses. he was born here everyone knows him a. former soldier decries i'll betray arrests in a city where no one talks without him will be lost talking to residents would be impossible especially with a camera they've gone in the woods called the woods this is where they hang out

they not out right now but this deceived this is where they all be hanging out. to see the error. they won't bother you the most the target african-american. with them to their own heart and not. on the same road as log out of jail man ya know that's why i got to know. the people there really is a fake us man a good one john. many relaying silence to the fear of reprisals. they don't talk. they disapprove. just arrest them for not then in their resume pick them up all day charge and all kind of charge and. they know what the law is no communication you know is always aggressive in.

bresson. as with bill. they don't give a damn if you did the georgia nut. low if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. thought in your car with no. one to two thousand. and. eight. just the courthouse. status. people leaders from saying then your parish. parish like coming back intact because

they have jim crow mentality. that the african american is less of a man especially the male is less of a man. to change the. federal investigation is the. whole interview requests. the sheriff isn't interested in any questions. twice as high as the us average ten times. which makes it a world record. of the sixty four sheriffs manages his prison. they are elected by fervent supporters. to anyone. for every prisoner of the state pays twenty four dollars a day. use that money as they see fit. we leave to

meet one of these powerful men next stop the force perish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. illegally good work this morning the sheriff's asking about any you come as. and we have no one to process this morning right how many have you process so far. it's ok and how many you have left the process just two more are there warrants or arrests arrests. and so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone this morning. doesn't get a minute. ok. stefan forming question back on this want to go. down is out.

and the rest i'll visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but incarcerated every cell is occupied and take out what. do you do. every day our jails is beyond full we have a capacity of two hundred forty three beds that we can house here in this facility and at any given day we have between seventy five and a hundred twenty five inmates that are in other jails across the state of louisiana . i'm sure we don't want her around town. it's in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy only where the correctional officer has an absence of rules and more than a perimeter next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on occupation. the sheriff's compete to collect the most state. every prisoner

means cash. the uniqueness of the sheriff in the louisiana is that we are a separate constitutional unit of local government we are a ton of must from the state and we were autonomy from other branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds weekend by police purchased property we can keep self generated revenue the next biggest area our responsibilities of running the jail the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job that there is that's elected i love it so much of a dinner for twenty five years. it's the best job in the weld but it requires the sheriff to constantly find new clients. it was stored here with a bigger targets was warning or through force. alan evans expertise in

a resting multiple people. up to twenty years of patrol duty and was she to perish he knows the district well . you know some days we only rest bore some days will return of toil you know just don't arceo. your hearing you know it just becomes ago when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and saudi. use we're going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out a movie fight and one on their way round them all up we took into the bargain and jail. us by the most auguries department must say oh boy lawful order to. disperse. they wouldn't. and we just start arresting people and finally everybody

took off the way. we ended up with fourteen of. allan sets a personal arrest record a council housing area where rent is low. well these folks down here they won't. they won't tell you only why you bet your book go somebody so you can do it they go and think that. they're what they call a snitch. told to him and people out. in them when you come in here where years would bring several officers that were coming to work so the. first better crowd reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people. years where it's drug related they are going over the droves. the suspects and then taken to which it's a prison. and. they were here.

and when they get there they're rented to the sheriff. you want to go make a tour go see what it's like around the sale of the well don't warms i guess is it would ok you really. have it we'll show you around a bit. one thousand one hundred fifty prisoners are living in very basic conditions this is the way all of are set up here you know it's all this whole like the about fifty in each one. and they do have a. race name put back to the south they don't go anywhere i mean there are thirty or forty four cells of the. j. russell has just begun his second term as sheriff. he knows prison regulations well

he wrote them in his absence only one person can make decisions prison warden pat johnson. and usually there's someone out here with that guy but if not he can sit right here and he can watch the whole. all for. when there's only four cameras and you know him so he's got to get out and he knows what's going on at all times just from sitting here. there are many cameras and only one god monitoring two hundred prisoners. beds and laid out closely there is no previously. they have one remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. russell is full of ideas about how to reduce costs. where people would go visit him between glass top all these you know but over time technology has taken over that now we just do it

on like a said you know b.t.o. visitation i don't know what comes in it will we don't have to search for many more on saturdays and sundays and it's cost effective not to realize that may and how we're doing all right which saves a lot of money and loan. maximum profit at any cost the sheriff will stop at nothing teacher the prisoners are put to work in here. you know they're getting about forty percent off what they're making but yet they're paying for their incarceration ok so it's a huge deal with those monies like i said do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our equipment our card salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put them back and. if they if they occur if they re a ruffian. we stand almost we should at least be problems here which is really bad here so we did the remodel took all the walls out seat. one

clear. that i'm going to say. that the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you give back or no officer our family my family nothing for. twenty eight days twenty years. twenty. three to get home it's ok. to do. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want. to go to the press it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should.

apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. has been spent in super to twenty million . it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think i know about the beautiful guy a great chance with. the base. but also. to the ship. it was suggested.

and a fairly strong one there were two thousand. and the study it's a very extensive study done by a well respected scientists. do chemicals that the advertising. really increase the risk of cancer and i chose a means of known to infuse them in the. skepticism. that this is is true by independent scientists. industry. and sation from my time as well as the others why is that the meat lobby. doing if you want to learn more you'll get a definite on the. back. is a big business against health. as it started. all . these are the most profitable inmates there are awaiting release to work

outside the prison but they were. manufacturing jobs just. where they were they need to be in the needy is ok and once we have. we take them to they pay a percentage of their salaries for their state for their baby further housing for their own transportation for their meals. they go back to into the park to run to the chair so it's very profitable and that was ok. these hundred eighty two. million dollars a year. profit and wants everything to pay for everything. you can the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. deserves a chance yeah absolutely you'd be sure to read. i don't ever ever ambition or you

know. created in as. many louisiana residents who've been to prison. all day all day for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in. any one on the street even in front of their own house is under suspicion really really they all run the risk of being checked yeah and they go to want to. you know they don't get nobody. is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that loves. to call video of people in the street.

that would be seen at a cost is a lot of video of people so yes there were shooting video. shot of me. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and was picked up again. from. i was here. and. it was. the stone i didn't see none. came of the. sort in my lawyer. did he mention it to distinctive features she said no. so you go on mark good point on the pits and. he didn't say anything. we hade ever maser for monsieur and he went to the store

earlier. and then later. when i have years later i was released. two and a half years in custody made the twenty six year old father of five writes rap songs. about life for louisiana prisoners. bring. it conditionally were. showers dollar. too much very cold showers. all over the. city you know. out there and there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention. you know like. no you know voice would be going. to me as

a chain of command you know worst boss who was the last foursome is addicted to goose. and from there you know they all work together and i mean of if nobody could come and see was going. to get away with. this or that. frank's is not an exceptional story. louisiana was late to abolish slavery but african-americans still had to fight for their rights. a cute guy the toll cute guy here. with me in one nine hundred sixty three that was me. fifty. years ago. that was me. who led to demonstration and it was met by people who would guns in and all of the stuff. that people had in the middle sixty's to

stop african american kids from their mistreating from seeking the afghan civil rights. after years of political activity calvin johnson became the first black judge in louisiana. he's often dealt with sheriffs. or words i can use to to describe what i feel about that. but then you would have to cut those words out of this interview. because lavery had indeed the way to keep people in slavery was to use the justice system and they fixed laws such that the newly freed people for misleads would be put back in jail and then be forced to go back on the plantations and work is not dead they are. a mean people of bad people it's it's that they are as

much a a for lack of a better word victim of the system as the people who are in the jails of victims of the system because we are a poor state and we have used all kinds of means always to to fund the sales so the sheriff in those places all using that as a means to fund. the sheriff's self and his was needs to operate with he's using it for that purpose and the louisiana law the third time you did one of those things i just described you could go to jail for life. i would not do. that and. steve exemplify. the absurdity of the system in two thousand and

seven he was arrested for driving under the influence in prison he learned that he was h. i.v. positive. didn't want to spend the money zero. zero. zero zero because i was only inmate those want to go to the hospital. they feel like i won then important. yet when i was almost dead they they sent me if they would say me the hospital sooner. then that. the infection. they would sell my haid would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine or column got out the membrane kavi pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face. as i remounted it was about to pop out of the sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the back side as i'm permanently damaged. was in the hospital in

they tell me that i was a job very positive. told him they must have somebody else's records confused with mine because i'm not a job. and they said yes you are. i'm. here. for you therefore. nothing. left and i've only made me. steve returns to prison but his treatments didn't begin until months later thanks to social workers like darren stanley prisoners can hope for medical care as a source we're going to figure out how to get that medication since you know lister . says they they will do a chevy medication in a blister pack. according to the sheriff's twenty four dollars per per prisoner.

day isn't enough to pay for hiv treatment in louisiana was very odd compared to the other states it was very clear that we had a very big problem with our parish and city jails providing h.l.v. medication treatment to the inmates it was crystal clear you consider the culture of medication i could imagine there's a lot of aids are very proud of inmates there are not getting treatment. the old prison of new orleans is finally in the past it was one of the was just in the united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building. even inside it's very different. than our idea of our condition hypertension leading to sort of a kidney disease you know ma'am have you ever been exposed to. any venereal transmitted diseases. come out. health questionnaire is

a brand new concept in louisiana prisons. the prison is proud of it but the procedure is still in its trial phase. it's not the sheriff but a prison spokesman who receives us. well the budget has changed it used to be based on what we call a per d.m. meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie or the state when we had stayed in mates of so many dollars per inmate. that system we no longer use we receive a budget just like many other agencies too and so we must operate within that budget she you. take care of all of our operations here under the old system there was incidence an. if you have more inmates because the more you have

the more money get. outdated and inhumane. an unambiguous indictment of the state's other prisons. with its new system new orleans wants to set a positive example but with a creator president in a state with established traditions independent parishes and all.

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