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they disapprove. of them for not then in their resume pick them up. on a charge and. they know what communication you know is always aggressive. do you see that you will dress and try to search you go you know. very well they won't have bill money that's what their money as it is about is when the bill that's what they want to get at loan they don't give a damn if you did the georgia nut. low in if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. god too and i have. got a new car with no. two thousand and eleven to two thousand foot and about a.
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course or just the courthouse on the shelf of. status i know some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come to paris like coming back intact because they have jim crow mentality. head. the african american 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 any questions. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us average ten times. which makes it a world record. of the sixty four. sheriffs manages his own prison. and they are
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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 as we leave class to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country which are. 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 far. it's ok and how many you have left the process just two more are they warrants or arrest arrests for the getting started so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points sent to start booking anyone this morning. does get
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a mins. ok. step off for me question back on the small. towns out. into the rest i'll visit lusted for two hours and in that time twelve people but incarcerated every cell is occupied and to take out one hour to do it. every day are jailed 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. and since the catwalk on her car. in the old now in jail the only way the
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correctional officer has access is. in one room or next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on occupation. said the sheriff compete to collect the most state of every prisoner means cash. here's 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 we can buy police purchased property and 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 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
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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 before five some days will return of toil you know just don't arceo. you're hearing you know it just becomes ago when the weather gets better like being with us bertie you know saudi. use we're going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen. people
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right up here in this intersection i rolled out the move the street fighting one on the way round them all up we took into the taken to jail. passed by the most all the rest of parceling must say oh what game allow floater to. disperse they wouldn't aspire so we just start arresting people and finally everybody took off and left so we ended up before taking a. kid alan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. 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 a sneak. talk to him and rant people out. in them when you come in here we're used to bring several officers that were coming to work something. first better crime reported or hears this
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a lot of disturbances. people fight. years with drug related they are going over the. suspects and then taken to with sheets of prison. and when they get there they're rented to the sheriff. you don't 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. one thousand one hundred fifty prisoners are living in very basic conditions this is the way all over set up here you know all are whole like the above fifty in each one. and i did have a. brief race and then put it back to you. ok so they don't go anywhere i mean they
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are there here twenty four seventh's. jay 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 would think but if not he can sit right here and he can watch the whole. all for. when there's badly 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. want to remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. russell is full of
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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 like i said you know b.t.o. visitation i don't know what comes in it well we don't have to search them anymore all saturdays and sundays and it's cost effective not to real round that may and how we're doing all right which saves a lot of money and loan. the maximum profit at any cost the sheriff will stop at nothing teach him 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 to see it do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our equipment or card sound. things of that nature so
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they're basically paying us to put them back into the good if they if they occur if they real real thing. we stone walls we should have used the poems here. just laid back there so when did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look very good i'm going to say. that the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more he had back our home our friends our family my family now. twenty eight days twenty year. twenty. three to get home but take. a look. here's what people have been saying about redacted in night sixty just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know
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a lot of the really packs a punch. yampa is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than blue. sea people you've never heard of love jack tonight president of the world bank hate. me seriously send us an e-mail join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle. and this man found his own response to the problem and constructed
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dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution your craft or someone wanted touring the site otherwise it will be a free for all and this is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you know suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.
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to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru where she's a little bit different i'm not. going up there i know with no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have fun meet everyday americans. and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which. these are the most profitable inmates that are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return it 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 further housing for their transportation for their meals for all of that they go back into the
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department to go into the chair stop so it's very profitable in that respect 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 so they would say absolutely you'd be sure you know stay down there forever wishing to go down there you know a crazy man and then. i wake at this i just feel like you're all right. many louisiana residents have been to prison. they are two for two and
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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 did they all run the risk of being checked yeah and they go to want to. you know they don't get the real thing. he's talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that love. to pay for models 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 video. you got shot of me. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and picked up again. from. i was here for.
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years and. was. the stone i didn't see none. came. my lawyer. didn't mention anything about a tattoo distinctive features no soul so you're like go on mark good point on the pits and. he didn't say anything. like we had ever made a pharmacy and he went to the store early. and then later. two and a half 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. songs about life for louisiana prisoners. bring.
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it conditionally were. sours dollar. too much very cold showers. you know. out there and there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention you know like. no voice would be going the. to me the chain of command you know worst boss who is a law enforcement is addicted to it was made. 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.
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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 the lead 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 now dance civil rights. after years of political activity calvin johnson became the first black joe. louisiana. he's often dealt with sheriffs. they are words i can use to to describe what i feel about that. but then you would have to cut those words out
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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 that 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 our sales so the sheriff in those places all using that as
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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. 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. he was been among. oh and your officers because i was only inmate that was going to go to the hospital. they feel like i won then important. yet when i was
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almost dead they they sent me if they would say me the hospital sooner. then that. the infection. there was. would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine or column got up from my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face . as i reminded it was about to pop out of the sockets who had piece of the optic nerve on the back side as i'm permanently damaged. i was in the hospital and they tell me that i was a job the positive. told him they must have somebody else's records confused with mine because i'm not positive and they said yes you are. time. yeah. you need to talk about everything.
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no three no come on last and. only me 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 and a list of. who 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 cost of medication. i could imagine there's a lot of h.r. be proud of inmates there or not getting treatment. the old prison of new orleans
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is finally in the past it was one of the was to the united states. to new prisoner looks like an office building. even inside it's very different. farai the heart condition hypertension leading to slaughter a kidney disease no ma'am have you ever been exposed to. any venereal especially transmitted disease now mounted on a time from our. 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.
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meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie for 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 should you. take care of all of our operations here under the ost system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money we get. outdated and inhumane. and unambiguous indictments of the state's other prisons. with its new system new orleans wants to set a positive example but where they create a president. in a state with established traditions independent parishes and old.
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about one hundred of them i did not come here oh no i mean my. upon him and if one came at that innocent missile like a mummy a little much to me still slot. machine of say not a single post. that. doesn't have it doesn't assume hung up on the nothing to the left of i learn enough to hold on to something. and the list will go down when something as new come on i'm. not familiar. with can come. from some small town some have moments some some of them made out. if.
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you are doing that how all of the from the one that heard. about your sudden passing have only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last bank turn. you're at it up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each other. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that
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mainstream media has met its maker. all across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies who have it interviewed by a little sample song alone even if i come to niggas full elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over the utilities many bought a dell of drop off a leg solicitously got book video while on the program i recall. i've been this is just the got them out of your corporate overall roberson for your valuable billet bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water is about water but it's also over much more than war it's about the hurt and the redistribution of our west girls and their debt down wars the war and all. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer
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or any other sit coms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on the world.
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