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ville platte 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 on the john came back. some. close up but. you know 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 decries arrest in a city where no one talks without him would be lost talking to residents would be
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impossible especially with a camera gone in the woods called the woods this is where most of they hang out right now but this late on deceived this is where they all be hanging out. to see the drug era. then why bother you the most the target african-american. i put them to their own heart and not. in the same boat as log out of jail man ya know that's why i got to know. the people there really is a fake us man good. and john. many relaying silence to for fear of reprisals. if they don't talk. they disapprove. which would just arrest them from not been in their resume.
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they don't. want a case of always aggressive. bresson. for bill money for their money as it is a bill that's what they want to do that they don't give a damn if you did the george are not going to. allow it if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. thought in your car wouldn't. let them through two thousand ford and about a.
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course or just the courthouse. status some people to save leaders from saying then your parish. parish like coming back intact because they have that jim crow mentality. head. the african-american is the less of a man especially the male is less of a man. wants to change that. the federal investigation is the first step. in prison declines all 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. they don't. any
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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. for. 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 there warrants or arrest arrests for the getting started so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points stand to start booking anyone small it. doesn't get a minute. ok. step out for me question
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back on this want to go. down is out. into most i'll visit lusted for two hours and in that time twelve people but in kosovo i took every cell is occupied and to take out. of 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. it's in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy you know the only way the correctional officer has an absence of rules and more than a perimeter next. to the system has one. in twisted detail funding is based on
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occupation. said the sheriff 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 are autonomy from other branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds we can buy sell lease purchase property and we can keep self generated revenue the next biggest area our responsibilities of running the jail the greatest job in a well 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
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sheriff to constantly find new clients. it was stored here with a bigger targets was more your street force. alan evans expertise is in a resting multiple people. after twenty years of patrol duty and was she to parish he knows the district well . you know some days we only respond some days we were used to enter 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 you know saudi. use we're going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out the movers fighting one on their way round them all up we're talking about are going to jail. by the most all the
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rest of parceling must say oh we gave them a lawful order to. disperse. they wouldn't aspires and we just started arresting people and finally everybody took off and left so we ended up before taking up. allen sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. for these folks down here they won't. they won't help tell you tony will wave at you because somebody so you can do it they go and think that. they're what they call a snitch. talked to him and rant people out. and when you come in here we use we bring several officers or we're coming to work something. first better a crime reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people fight. years with drug related they are going over
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the. suspects and then taken to which it's a prison. and when they get there they're rented to the sheriff. don't want to go make a tour go see what it's like around and sail the well don't warms i guess 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 of are set up here you know all this whole like the about fifty in each one. and i did have a. brief race and then flew back to the south they don't go anywhere and here they are there here twenty four seventh's after that.
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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 their 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 are laid out closely there is no privity or. remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. russell is full of ideas about how to reduce
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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 for many more on saturdays and sundays and it's cost effective not to be held out 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 i said do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our equipment or card salaries things of that nature so there are actually paying us to put them back into ok if they if they occur if they re
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a real feeds you. at least they also used at least the poems here. to play but they're still wanted to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear little very good i'm going to go that day. at the sheriff's maintains a relationship with every prisoner. from the war he had back for. our family his family and all around us for twenty eight days and you married twenty years and have been locked up twenty. three to get home to take. a look in the.
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it's the cradle of jazz. america is the america we have. to know this jazz feel. the city of climatic contest of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least twelve members of mob family close most. of street racing in the heat of the night this is new orleans itself from the best place in the world. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the night there was a full on author of well the only show i go out of my way to launch a lot of the really packed a punch. yampa is the john oliver of harvey america's doing the same we are
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apparently better than booth at that and see people you never heard of love back to the night not the president of the world bank though take it under let me seriously send us an e-mail. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than forty six customs are here permanently all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. it is forms all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like they can so and modigliani i can't boortz unsold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet but also discreet secrets they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets
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nobody knows. how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport the physician that you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only or is it the world's black box of the art business . these are the most profitable inmates they are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at night service manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on where they where they need to be in the needy is ok and once we have the jobs we take them to 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
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department to go into the chair stopped 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. because of the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah so there which nasa let you be sure you know stayed out of for ambition to get out there you know they. created an ad that. i can see later on. many louisiana residents have been to prison. they are there for two and
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a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in the shooting anyone 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 what sound 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. a call 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 you were shooting a music video. because you got shot of me. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and was picked up again and from.
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i was here. toward a half year and i. was there at the store and i didn't see none. came in the door always thing with. my lawyer. did he mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so you leggo or mark pointed out the pits and. he said that he didn't see anything as we had ever maser for monsieur and he went to the store earlier today and then later. on to have years later i was released. through. two and a half years in custody made the twenty six year old father of five right rap songs . songs about life for louisiana prisoners. three.
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was different from. every. it conditionally were. showers dollar to mush very cold showers. 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 the most. to me is it saying. local law enforcement is ridiculous million. from 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 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 are words i can use 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 leave three 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 form 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 use all kinds of means always to to fund our sales so the sheriff in most places all using that as
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a means to fund. the sheriff's self and his and was needs to operate when 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. you want to spend the money zero. zero. zero zero because i was only inmate those want to go to the house but. they feel like i would never report. 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. they would sell my hair would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid built up my spine or calm got up to my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the turn to push it through my face. as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the backside isn't permanent damage to. i was in the hospital and they tell me that i was a job the positive. told and they must have somebody else's records confused with man because i'm not positive and they said yes you are. time. yeah. are you there for everything.
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no three no you're on last and. only me and. 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 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
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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 just want a kidney disease no ma'am and we haven't been exposed to. any venereal i sexually transmitted disease and i'm around on a time when i'm 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 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 osa system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money to get. outdated and inhumane. and ambiguous 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 awful sheriffs.
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