silence due to fear of reprisals. if. they disapprove. them for not then in their resume pick them up. on a charge and. they know what communication you know is always aggressive and. told to do. you know will dress in it and try to search you go in those. areas where they won't have bill money for their money as it is about when the bill does what they want to do that at the moment they don't give a damn if you didn't charge or not. allow it if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of advice from god too and i have. had a good car wouldn't. let them through two thousand ford and about a.

course or just the courthouse to show up with. status i know some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come a t. vand your parish like coming back in time because they have jim crow mentality you always head. to africa america is 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 and ten times higher than germany. in

a world record. of the sixty four sheriffs manages his own prison. and 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 as we leave plots to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. you're going to get really really good work this morning the sheriff's asking about any new 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 have left the process just two more are they warrants or arrests arrests for the getting started so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points

to start booking anyone small it. doesn't get a minute. ok. staff are forming question back on this want to go. rounds out. into the rest i'll visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but incarcerated every cell is occupied and to take out for our children. 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 our town.

it's in the catwalk or the corridor in the old analogy you know the only way the correctional officer has access to it was in washington perimeter next. to the system has one twisted detail the 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 autonomy us 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 lease purchase 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 that there is that selected i love it so my family 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 it was sheet a parish he knows the district well. you know some days we only respond or five days will routine 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 for. i

think it was fourteen people running appear in this intersection i rolled out into the street fighting one. way round them all the way to get into the jail. i spy the most other risk department might say a game allow folder to. disperse they wouldn't aspires that we just start arresting people and finally everybody took off and left so we ended up before turning up. here alan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. the folks down here they won't. they won't tell to the point the way that you because somebody so you can do think that. they're what they call a snitch. talk to people out. and then when you come in here we usually bring several houses that we're coming to work so

. there's been a crime reported or used it's a lot of disturbances. people five. years ways drug related they argued over the droves. the suspects and then taken to which it's a prison. and when they get there they're rendered to the sheriff's. young want to go micah to go see what it's like around and say a lot of them well don't warms i guess is doing ok. and then 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 our set up here you know the caller soulful like did about fifty in each one. and i do know. back to you

is out they 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. 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 only four cameras and you know him so he's got to get out and he knows what's going on i don't i'm just i'm sitting here. there are many cameras and only one god monitoring two hundred prisoners. beds and laid out closely there is no privy.

to. what they have or what 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 on like i 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 all 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. the maximum profit at any cost the sheriff will stop at nothing 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 and. they go to our whitman or coord salaries things of that nature so

they're basically paying us to put them back in jail because if they if they occur if they reopen real thing. we stone wall street at least the problems here which is very bad they're still wanted to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear little very good i'm going to pay. the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you give back our our friends our family my family you know. twenty eight days twenty year. twenty. three to get home to take. the. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private

companies to me to people this is the simple song alone even some company elsewhere they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us that. allowed some us you guys to got. to go. buy been pieces of us to quote them out real kudos. for you man but the lift bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more the water it's about to hurt and the redistribution of. date downwards the ones are. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's the lawn author of the only show i go out of my way to punch you could really pack them. yap is the john. and all over

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is who. i mean you don't. see that looked. to me not through only ten tests. let alone make. said. claim to know. that. you speak french. send. them to. these are the most profitable inmates there are awaiting release to work outside

the prison but they return it first manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on where they where they need to be in the media 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 to into the department to go into the. chair stop so it's very profitable and that was fake ok . these hundred eighty two million. net profit doesn't matter 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 i'll say rich and i absolutely could be sure you know stayed out for ambition and i don't know you know what a. crazy man and then. i can be like.

many louisiana residents who've been to prison. they are there for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in shootings that 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 watch our radio you know they don't get no respect. is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that love. to eat at a coffee from moderate 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. because you got shot of mccarthy. i was picked up. once then little released and picked up again. from. i was here. toward avner. and i. was there at the store and i didn't see none. came in the store always thing with soda and my lawyer. didn't mention anything about ted to distinctive features he said no so or so you're lego or mark good point on the pits and on the p.c. . he didn't see anything as we had ever maser from us yeah

he went to the store earlier today and then later on. 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 write rap songs . songs about life for louisiana prisoners. free. plea. from. a conditionally were. showers dollar to mush very cold showers. dollars or 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 even though. to me as a chain of command you know our stars which were lost for us mr did take those.

from you know they all work together and i mean of if nobody from now saga come and see what's going on. to get away with. this or that. frank's is not an exceptional story. louisiana was late to a ball or slow. very but african-americans still had to fight for their rights. a cute guy to talk you guys 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 demonstration and it was met by people who would guns him and all of the stuff that people had in the middle sixty's to stop

african-american kids from their mistreated 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 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 leverage head in did 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 our sales so the sheriff in those places are using that as a means to for. 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 a chevy positive. you want to spend the money zero. zero zero zero zero because i was only inmate that was going 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 hair would probably wouldn't even be in their spinal fluid build up my spine or column got up from my brain katie pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face . as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets to have peace. on the backside. i was in. was in the hospital

again 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 right i'm. here. for you to talk about everything. no three no come on. and. so not only 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 and a blister pack. who say they will do a jab the 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 the 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 and bleeding disorder a kidney disease no ma'am every have been exposed to. any venereal. disease the amount 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 call a per d.m. 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 receive 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 you would get. outdated and inhumane. and 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 old awful sheriff's.

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reducing our. expense that's undercutting but what's good for markets is not good for the global economy. 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 strong. this man found his own response of the problem and constructed 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 perth to someone monitoring the site otherwise it'll be

a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sitcoms 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. israel's prime minister orders the country's withdrawal from unesco. having several recognized world heritage sites in the country. also on r.t. this hour a u.s. olympic gold medalist reveals years long abuse by team doctor as well as accusing a high ranking sports officials of silence we speak to another former gymnastic was the first to publicly come forward. i wish i could say that i was surprised.