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bresson it try to search you go. for. bill money for the money as it is a bill that's what they want to get at loan they don't give a damn if you didn't charge or not. allow it if you can beat a good beating cause there's a. good line of. god too and i have. had a good car with no. two thousand and eleven to two thousand ford and not a. course or just the courthouse. status some people say that leaders from saying man your parish. they come to paris like coming back
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intact because they have jim crow mentality. head. the african american 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 uttering any 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. 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
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meet one of these powerful men next stop the forest parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. illegally 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 you have left the process just two more are there warrants or arrests arrests for the people and so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone small it. doesn't get a minute. ok. step out forming question back of us want to go. down is out. into the rest i'll visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but
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incarcerated every cell is occupied and take out what. do you do. 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 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 in a perimeter next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on occupation. said the sheriff's compete to collect the most state every prisoner means cash. the uniqueness of the sheriff in the louisiana is that
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we are a separate constitutional unit of local government we are a ton of must 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 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'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.
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after twenty years of patrol duty it was she to perish he knows the district well. you know some days we only respond or five some days will raise tuner poil 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. usually 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. us by the most auguries department months or give them a lawful order to. disperse. they wouldn't aspires that we just order rest of people and finally everybody. gulf in laos. so we ended up before taking up.
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alan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is low. his folks down here they won't. they won't tell terry and pony the way that you because somebody so you can do it they go think that. they're what they call a snitch. talked to him and people out. in them when you come in here where years would bring several officers that were coming to work so the. first better crime reported or here is this a lot of disturbances. people fight years where it's drug related they are going over the. the suspects and then taken to which it's a prison. and
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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 say oh the well don't warms like this is it with ok you're it. 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 to about fifty in each one. and they do have a. race name put back to the south they don't go anywhere and here they are thirty or twenty four seventh's of that. j. 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
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pat johnson. and usually there's someone out here with a gun 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 and laid out closely there is no privy or. was 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 on like i said you know b.t.o.
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visitation i don't know what comes in it well we don't have to search for me more on saturdays and sundays and it's cost effective not to real now 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 kitchen 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 cart salaries things about nature so they're basically paying us to put them back in doing ok if they if they occur if they re a real failure in the. least and also we should have used the problems here which is very bad here so we did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look there to come. but i would hope that they. have the sheriff maintains
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a relationship with every prison. i. know for years back or. so our family is a family i know and. for twenty eight days twenty years i have been locked up twenty. three to get home it's a really good look to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond's show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.
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it's the cradle of jazz. this is america is the america we. took knows this jazz feeling. a city of climatic contest a fish alligators on the loose of poverty and crime is by the least twelve members of mob family close most murders of street racing in the heat of the night this is new orleans itself and the best place in the world. shows seem wrong when all roads just don't hold. any longer get to shape out these days to come out ahead and gauge equals betrayal.
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when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. 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 for knox ellis was customs are here permanently all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. opposite it is from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because 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 system 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 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 jobs 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
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their transportation for their meals for all of that they go back into the department to go into 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 wants everything to fight for everything. you can the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah nasa let you be sure you know stayed out there forever wishing to go down there you know what a. crazy man and then. i wake at the layer of. many
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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 shooting that anyone on the street even in front of their own house is under suspicion really really if 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's up. to the. if moderate video of people in the street. would be seated at a cost is a modern video of people in history so yes new issued a new video. that you got shot of my god. i was picked up. for once then little relief. was picked up again. from.
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i was here. toward a half year and i. was there at the store and i didn't see nobody. came in the store always thing with soda and my lawyer. didn't mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so you and i go on the market get pointed out in the pits and. he said that he didn't see anything. like we had ever made for monsieur and 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.
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me my plane was different from the wreck. it conditionally were. sours dollar me to mush very cold showers. who know. they were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention. you know like. no you know voice would be the most. to me is attained. you know. the local law enforcement is ridiculous million. from there you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody. is 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 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 judge in louisiana. he's often dealt with sheriffs. they are words i can use to to describe
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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 of victims of the system because we are a poor state and we have used all kinds of means always to to
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fund our 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 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 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. the infection and they would sell my here i would probably wouldn't even be in there my spinal fluid built up my spine or calm got up from my brain cavity pushed my brain open was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face you had as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets really piece of the optic nerve on the back side and permanent damage to. 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.
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yeah. you need to talk about everything you know pretty low. on left and. so on me. 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 source we're going to figure out how to get that medication since you and opus to pay. 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
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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 you know even inside it's very different. than our i dislike heart condition hypertension and bleeding just want a kidney disease no ma'am and we haven't been exposed to. any venereal 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 i. guess not the sheriff but a prison spokesman who receives us. well the budget has changed it used to be based
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on what we called 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 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
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a state with established traditions independent parishes and old awful sheriffs. at that your second passing i've only just learned. and taken your last. year at me on do it but i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last lines and helps to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a game still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arcade and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave
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a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different slow to speak to now because there are no other takers play to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. with no make this manufacture consent to stick to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. going all middle of the room signal. diluting million more unionists is really the law. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got soaked through in the time.
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when you're going to get up yet. i mean you've got to just run their store do it you cry because they're tired suck up to. us does not shift a little odd. cause . to the ticket they are. kind of financial survival job today with the money laundering first to visit this campus and to see different. good this is
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a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do all these banks are complicit in the rights of congress to decide to give my phone and say hey i'm ready to do some serious muhlenberg ok let's see how we did while we've got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again from that you know it money laundering is highly illegal. much keyser because. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would speak. i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know . i thought the employee like going to school you know just wanted to still give up food for the harvest.
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