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a coffee table. and. keep it or don't order to mug you people come up with proof. on genyen mountain about the law and they have a map of the government among the numbers and. a number who intend to put on november a bit of us it does of them that i don't know what about on a number that i will be was isaac and it is about. 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 to sampson. was about. you know again. ok i'm going to bed by now. he's looking for witnesses. he was born here everyone knows him a. former soldier decries tree arrests in a city where no one talks without him would be lost talking to residents would be impossible especially with a camera going on in the woods called the woods this is where most of they hang out they're 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. i will say let us walk out of here man ya know that's why i got to know. no one told the people there really is a fake us man good. and john. many overlaying silence due to fear of reprisals. if they don't talk. they disapprove. they would just arrest them for not winning. they pick them up. on a charge and. they know what communication you know is always aggressive. bresson try to search you go in those. areas where they won't have bill money for their money as it is about when the bottle bill that's what they want to get at

loan they don't give a damn if you didn't charge or not. allow in if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. two and a half to. hide in your car with no. one to two thousand foot and about a. course or just the courthouse. status some people to save the 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 to make us 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 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 as we leave class 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 you come as. if. 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 to get and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points stand to start booking anyone this morning. doesn't get a minute. ok. step out for me question back on this want to go. down is out. and from 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. of it.

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 you know the only way the correctional officer has accidents is. in washington perimeter next. just m 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 are 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 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. after twenty years of patrol duty and was she to perish he knows the district well

. fortunately. you know some days we only rest before five some days will return 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. usually going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out the moves very quiet and one on their way round them all up we're talking about are going to jail. passed by the most all the 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. well

these folks down here they won't. they won't 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 sneak. to him and people out. in them when you come in here we use we bring several officers or we're coming to work something. first better across reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people fight. years with drug related they are going over 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 say oh the well don't warms i guess is it

would ok you're it great 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 who likes it about fifty in each one. and they did have it for 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. 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 and laid out closely there is no privity. will. never want to remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. say 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 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. the 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 card salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put them back in doing ok if they if they occur if they re a real feeds you. we stone walls we should at least be poems in here but just a better soul wanted to remodel through all the walls out so you just got one clear little all the way there that i'm going to write it off just for the next day. at the sheriff's maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you give back or

no officer our family is a family no. twenty eight days twenty year have been locked up twenty. three to get home it's. really. really. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be pressed. to do i think to be for us this is what the missile three of them all can't be good good i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. there's an issue probably the only issue the unites many of the most powerful individuals surrounding donald trump and the issue is hostility directed at the

ranch there is every reason to believe the same people will translate their hostility into even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. and these are the most profitable inmates they are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at night service to 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 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 door to go into the chair so so it's very profitable and that was a ok. these hundred eighty two million. 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 absolutely you'd be sure that you know stay down there forever mr. craven and then. i can see later on. many louisiana residents who've been to prison. they are there for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a rubber. he was involved in sure 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 they go to want to. you know they don't get no reason being. is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that look. good at 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 there were shooting new video. because you got shot of me. 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 none. came in the store always thing with soden my lawyer.

didn't mention anything about a tattoo distinctive features she said no so or so you're like go on mark get cornered on the pits and. he said 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 on. two and a half years later i was released. through. two and a half years in custody he made the twenty six year old father of five writes rap songs. songs about life for louisiana prisoners. three. was different from the rest. it conditionally were. sours dollar to mush very cold showers.

who know. they were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention you know like. the voice would be going over. to me as a chain of command you know us thought it was the last force and as it did take those millions. from you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody could come and see was going. to get away with. this. 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 and and all of the other 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. day all words i can use to describe what i feel about that. but then you would have to cut those words. this interview. because lavery had indeed the way to keep people in slave 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 of a 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 use all kinds of means always to to 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 on. on their jobs. because i was only inmate those want to go to the house but. they feel like i was very poor. yet when i was almost dead they they saved me if they would say me the hospital. sooner. then. the infection. they would sell my hay it would probably wouldn't even be in there

my spinal fluid build up my spine or got up to my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on it trying to push it through my face. as i reminded her was about to pop out of the sockets. on the backside and permanently damaged. it 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 mine because i'm not a job he paused and they said yes you are. i'm. here. for you to talk about everything. 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 opus to. 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 prison of new orleans is fine. in the past it was one of the was to the united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building not even inside it's very

different. our ideas are conditioned hybrid things him leading to slaughter and kidney disease you know ma'am have you ever been exposed to. any venereal transmitted disease the amount of 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. meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie record 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 old system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money 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 with a creative president in a state with established traditions independent parishes and old awful sheriffs.

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