denim of into it is the food out of this not because of the this not to be but i mean. look you're the idiot. get to live it up with a. real plot 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 of very large number of federal authorities investigate through this man on the john came back after sampson. was up but. no again. i'll come go pay it back by now.

he's looking for witnesses. he was born here everyone knows him a. former soldier also decries arbitrary arrests in a city where no one talks without him would be lost talking to residents would be impossible especially with a camera gone in the woods called the woods this is where most of the hang out they not out right now but this late on deceived this is where they all be hanging out. to see the drug error. then one body you the most the target african-american. with under their own heart and not. the same as log out of jail man ya know that's why i got a no. good. no one told the people there really is

a fake us man like i'm john. many. a fear of reprisals. if. they disapprove. them for not. charging at all kind of charge and. they don't. communicate always aggressive in. this area they won't have bill money for their money as it is a bill that's what they want to. loan they don't give a damn if you didn't charge a nut. low if you can beat a good beating. there's a good line of. not going to and. not in your car with no.

one to two thousand foot and about a. course or just the courthouse. status some people to save leaders from saying then your parish. they come to paris like coming back in time 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. and he questions. the

louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us average and ten times higher than germany which makes it a world record. of the sixty four sheriffs manages his own prison. they are elected by fervent supporters. they don't owe any explanation to anyone. for every prisoner 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. illegal 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 for us it's ok and how many

you have left the process just two more are there warrants or arrest for us to feel sorry and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone this morning. does get a minute. ok. step off for me question back almost want to go. into the aisle visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people were incarcerated every cell is occupied it take out four hour. 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 one hundred twenty. five

inmates that are in other jails across the state of louisiana. i'm sure don't want her around town. it's in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy the only way the correctional officer has access to it was in one room or 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're 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 more your street force. alan evans expertise in a resting multiple people. up to twenty years of patrol duty it was sheets a parish he knows the district well. you know some days we only rest but some days we'll raise dinner poil you know just don't arceo. you know it just becomes

a go when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and sunny outside usually going to rest more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here 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 a person must say oh we gave them a lawful order to. disperse and they wouldn't aspires and we just started arresting people and finally everybody took off and left. and we ended up with fourteen of. alan sets a personal arrest record a council housing area where rent is love. these folks down here they won't. they won't tell you the only way that you would go somebody so you can do it they go and think that. they're what they call a sneak. to him and people out. in them

when you come in here we use we bring several officers that were coming to work so . first better across reported or over here is this a lot of disturbances. people. years with drug related they are going over that drove. 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's. you know want to go make a tour go see what it's like round and sail the well don't warms i guess is it would ok you really great and it will show you around a bit ok. one thousand one hundred fifty prisoners are living in very. basic

conditions this is way all over set up here you know it's all a hole for like fifty in each one. and they do have a. name but back to you is out they don't go anywhere they are there here one course there is a. j. russell has just begun his second term a sheriff he knows prison regulations well he wrote them in his absence only one person can make decisions prison warden pat johnson. but 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 privity. will. never want to remand 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 oh my guess is you'll be he'll be the tate and 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 teaching the prisoners are put to work in here. you know they're getting about forty percent off what they're making. yet they're paying for their

incarceration ok so it's a huge deal it's those monies like to see it do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our equipment our coord salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put them back in debt because if they if they occur if they re a real thing and if. we stand all so we should at least be poems here couple just laid back their soul wanted to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear little very good i'm going to put it on the net pay. the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you give back or no officer our family is a family not an ounce or twenty eight days you married twenty years there have been locked up twenty. three to get home it's not a. complete. their

walk is driving day to the death day is basically a death they tend to be demagogues to scream this is what's food in there but that . didn't always say india. india is just becoming maudie a martyr fundamental challenge. no exclusion in nature i feel. they come to get enough and they've got you if we have you on your will. level off selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight. the battles they don't believe the new socks for the

tell you that will be gossip and probably worth while for the most important news today. off the bat for telling me you are not cool enough and wants to buy their product please. these are the hawks that we along with our audience will watch. but. it was suggested. and a fairly strong. study done by a well respected scientists. do chemicals that. really increase the risk of cancer. known to infuse in the. system. that is. by independent scientists.

for my time as was the others why is that the meat lobby. doing if you want to learn more you'll get a definite on. the. back. is it big business against health. as it started. all. these other most profitable inmates they are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they were. just. were they where they need to

be needy is ok and once we have. we take them to a higher percentage of their salaries for the state for their baby further. for their own transportation for their meals. to go back to into the park to. so it's very profitable and that was ok. these hundred eighty two. net profit us about a million dollars a year ok profit and once everything's paid for everything. the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. deserves a chance yeah i'll say rich nasa let you be sure you know stayed out for ambition to get out there you know what a. crazy man and then. i can be like. 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 i really really believe they all run the risk of being checked yeah and they go to wants. you know they don't get nobody. is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that look. at a coffee from video of people in the street. that would be seen at a cost is a lot of really your people in the street so yes there were shooting new video. you

got shot of mccartney. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and was picked up again. from. i was here for a tour of the year and i. was there at the store and i didn't see no quote. came in the stall you see with. my lawyer. did he mention it to distinctive features she said no so or so you go on mark pointed out that puts it on the p.c. that he didn't see anything as she was like we had ever made her from us yeah he went to the store earlier. and then later. when i have years later i was released. through. 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. to mush very cold showers. all over the world whatever. 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 us dollars which were lost for us music to take was made. and from there you know they all work together and i mean of if

nobody could come and see what's going on. to get away with. this. 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. oh dear. it was me and nine hundred sixty three it 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 stuff that people had in the middle sixty's to stop african-american kids from demonstrating from seeking to have their civil rights. after years of political activity calvin

johnson became the first black judge in louisiana. he's often dealt with sheriff's . words communes 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 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 a bad people or 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 or using that as a means to fund. the sheriff's self in this was needs to. when he's using is 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 a chevy positive. you

want to spend the money zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero officer 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 the hospital sooner. then that. the infection. they would sell my. would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine got up to my brain kavi pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face. as i reminded it was bad to pop out of sockets. optic nerve on the back side as i'm permanently damaged. it was in the hospital in they tell me that i was a job. told him they must have somebody else's records confused with.

because i'm not positive and they said yes you are. i. know people. on the left and. only need me. steve returns to present but his treatments didn't begin until. months later thanks to social workers like darren stanley those prisoners can hope for medical care as a source we're going to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack says that 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 calls of medication i could imagine there's a lot of aids i'll 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 in the united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building. even inside it's very different. there i did a lot of heart condition hypertension leading this lot of my kidney disease you know my every have been exposed to. any venereal transmitted disease on any 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 with more of the state when we had stayed in maids 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 to. take care of all of our operations here under the old system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money get. outdated and inhumane. an ambiguous 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 old awful sheriffs. 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 new 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 rest of it. when i hope. they. give me no must use this and that i'm not to run then so be. yeah used in the school for growth in. health in the most part the a lot of them. you. know she just had a car she didn't need the militia. more than to get it be food out of this gutter be this but i mean. did you look in your

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