with the business owner oh i don't know. i was saying but as log out of the old man i don't know if i got to know. the people there really is a fake us man. i'm john. many overlaying silence to the fair of reprisals. they don't they don't. they disapprove. cops. arrest them for not. some day pick them up fault they charge with all kind of charge and. they don't know communication you know is always aggressive. never told me do. you see that you know best and try to search you go you know. this very well they won't have bill money yes well the money as it is about this

when the bulk bill doesn't they won't do that at the moment they don't give a damn if you did the chores are not going to lock you up and gets you below if you can beat a good beating. there's a good line of advice but i'm not going to and i have. had a good car with no. two thousand ford and i'm not a. course or a dancer just the courthouse on the shelf. status i know some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come into the parish like coming back in time because they have jim crow mentality they always had. the african marriage. is the less of a man especially the male is less of

a man. he wants to change that. the federal investigation is the first step but eventually in prison declines all interview requests. the sheriff isn't interested in on soaring and he questions. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the u.s. average and ten times higher than germany which makes it a world record. of the sixty four sheriffs manages his own prison. and they are elected by fervent supporters. they don't own any explanation to anyone. for every prisoner of the state pays twenty four dollars a day. the sheriff used that money as they see fit. we leave to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. illegally good work this

morning the sheriff's asking about any new comers. and we have no one to process this morning right how many have you process so for us it's ok and how many you have left the process just two more are there warrants or arrests for us. and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points ten a start booking anyone this morning. does get a minute. ok. staff are forming question back on this want to go. into our visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people were incarcerated every cell is occupied it take out four.

every day our jail is beyond full we 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 the corridor in the old analogy you know only when a correctional officer has an accident. in one room or next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on all key patients. the sheriffs 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 most 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.

after twenty years of patrol duty and when she took parish he knows the district well. fortunately. you know some days we only risk for five some days we'll risk tuner poil you know just on our she'll. you know just think comes and go when the weather gets better like this mr purdie and sunny outside usually going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people rather appear in this intersection i rolled out to move the street fighting one on the way round them all up we took into the title jail. passed by the most other wrist parceling muscle or gave them a lawful order to. disperse and they wouldn't aspire so we just started arresting people and finally everybody took off and lay off. so we ended up with fourteen of . alan sets a personal arrest record a council housing area where rent is low. for these folks down here they won't.

they won't tell you tony the way that you because somebody so you can do it they don't think that. they're what they call us needs. help to him and rent people out. in them when you come in here we use we bring several officers and we're coming to work something. first better crime reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people. news ways drug related they are going over that drove. the suspects and then taken to what she's a prison. and. they were here. and when they get there they're rented to the sheriff's.

you want to go make a tour go see what it's like round and sail the well don't warms like this is who it ok you are it. and it will show you around a bit ok. one thousand one hundred fifty prisoners are living in very basic conditions this is the way all over set up here you know it's all a hole for like fifty in each one. and they do have a. great name but back to the south beach don't go anywhere i mean they are very here twenty four seventh's. jay 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 all 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 . have war room and prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. russell is full of ideas about how to reduce costs. where people would go visit him between glass talk all these you know but over time technology has taken over that now we just do it on my guess is you know b.t.o. visitation i don't know what comes in it well we don't have to search for many more on saturdays and sundays and it's cost effective not. that may and how we're doing

all right which saves a lot of money and loan on. the 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 see it do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our whitman or card salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put it back and. if they if they occur if they re a real thing at. least owl's we should at least be poems here but just a bad year so when did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear little very good i'm going to pay. at the sheriff's maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you give back or

no power for our family my family and all. the twenty eight days twenty years i have been locked up twenty. three to get home take. a look in the.

so. there what is driving day to death day is basically of do they tend to be demagogued screaming this is what's food in there but that. you and i always say india is in. india is this because i mean madea martyr fundamental challenge. no exclusion and they feel. they come to get enough and they've got you if we have you on your world. i'll go.

to meno i must use the scented m d not to run in the den silk at the docks it would be theo i know there's no subtlety. i'm just. used in the school for the sunday times not for myself indeed i must but if you have a lot of them off of the out you must on those she just accounts you don't need the militia or governmental office the country. killed in a moment to get his b. food out of this bunch of the this stuff beat but i mean. did it look good you'll. get to live it up with.

these are the most profitable inmates they are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at night service jobs manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on where they need where they need to be in the needy is ok and once we have the jobs we take them to and they pay a percentage of their salaries for their state for their baby for their housing for their transportation for their meals for all of that they go back to into the department to go to the chairs up so it's very profitable and that was a ok. these hundred eighty two million mason net profit us about a million dollars a year ok profit and once everything's paid for everything. you can the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah absolutely you'd be sure you know stayed out for aggravation.

and crazy then and then. i wake at the later. many louisiana residents have been to prison. all day all day for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in a huge anyone on the street even in front of their own house is under suspicion really really did they all run the risk of being checked yeah and i go to once i'm right you know you know they don't get no respect. he's talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that low. it is an appalling day for moderate video and people in the street.

nowadays see it at a cost is a lot of really your people in the street so yes new issued a new video and i. got shot of mccarthy. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and was picked up again. from. i was here. toward a half year and the. baby was there at the store and i didn't see none. came in a store always seeing with. my lawyer. did he mention anything about ted to distinctive features he said no it's all so you go on mark good point on the pits and. he didn't see anything. like we had ever maser from us yeah he went to the store earlier. and then later.

when i have years later i was released. he has in custody made the twenty six year old father of five write rap songs. about life for louisiana prisoners. bring. it conditionally were. showers dollar to mush very cold showers. or whatever. you know. they were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention. you know like. no you know voice would be them though. to me there's

a chain of command you know. the local law enforcement is the detectives need. from there you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody. is going. to get away with. this. franks 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. it was me and one nine hundred sixty three that was me. fifty four years ago. that was me. i was one of them who led to demonstrations and it was met by people who would guns in and all of the other stuff that people had in the middle sixty's to stop african-american kids

from demonstrating 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. they all 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 leave three in did the way to keep people in slavery was to use the justice system and then fix 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 all victims of the system because we are a poor state and we have used all kinds of means a ways 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 and was needs to operate with he's using it for that purpose and the louisiana law the third time he did one of those things i just described you could go to jail for life. i would not do. that. but steve exemplifies 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. you 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 would then important. yet when i was almost dead they they sent me if they would say me to hospital sooner. then. the infection. they would sell my here would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine are calm got out the membrane kavi pushed my brain open was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face. as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets repeat the optic nerve on the back side and permanently damaged. i was in the hospital and they tell

me that i was a job very positive. told him i must have somebody else's records confused with mine. because i'm not positive and they said yes you are. i'm. here to talk about everything you know three zero zero zero and left and. so on and. steve returns to present but his treatments didn't begin until months later thanks to social workers like darren stanley prisoners can hope for medical care as a social worker to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack and say they will do a chevy medication in a blister pack. according to the sheriff's twenty four dollars per prisoner per day isn't enough to pay for hiv treatment 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 i'd be 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 ideas on a heart condition hypertension need just want a kidney disease you know and we haven't been exposed to. any venereal transmitted diseases on in time the amount. 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 called 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 maids of so many dollars per inmate. that system we no longer use we received a budget. just like many other agencies too and so we must operate within that budget to. take care of all of our operations here under the osa system there was an incentive to 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 creative president in a state with established traditions independent parishes and old awful sheriffs. just manufacture consensus instead of public wealth. when the running plus is protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the

room signals. to leave room for the real news really. under margaret thatcher there was a transition away from public housing and government assisted government underwritten public housing and they sold off all the council estates as they're known people bought into the units across the country and they became the land owning the land owning neoliberal gentrification under the current government in the u.k. it's another socialist scheme of government underwriting property but not for the poor people they do it for the rich people. when i hope it will.

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