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tries to treat arrests in a city where no one talks without him would be lost talking to residents would be impossible especially with a camera they'd gone in there would be called the woods this way they hang out they not out right now but this deceived this is where they all be hanging out. to see the drug era. they won't bother you the most the target african-american. with them business owner on a whole lot and. i was a mess log out of the old man i know that's why i got in the. middle and told the people there really is a fake us man go like i'm john how. many relaying silence to use a fear of reprisals. they don't they don't talk. they disapprove.
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they would just rest them for not then in their resume pick them up all day charge and all kind of charge and if. they don't want to do it no communication you know is always aggressive in lowest level deal never told they didn't put him down i babysit you know will dress and eat and try to search you go in those you know when this spill over very well they won't have bill money any want their money as it is about us when the bottle bill this what they want a bill man did it at the moment they don't give a damn if you did the chores are not going to lock you up and lets you below it if you can beat it it could be to include this a. lot is a good line of advice but not the two and a half years. not a new car with no. two thousand in them to two thousand foot and. a.
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or incarcerated and just the courthouse on the shelf or downstairs to d.a.'s office davis. people to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come in pairs like coming back intact because they have jim crow mentality they always 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 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. and they are
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elected by fervent supporters. they don't have any explanation to anyone. for every prisoner of 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. illegally good work this morning the sheriffs asking about any new comers. 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. and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points center start booking anyone this morning. does get
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a minute. ok. step out for me question back almost want to go. first answer you asked i'll visit lusted for two and in that time twelve people but in kosovo to every cell is occupied it take out. of it. every day our jill 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 cattle market a corridor in the old knowledge will be only when a correctional officer has an accident. and more than
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a perimeter next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on all key patients. said the sheriff's compete to collect the most state 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 most from the state and we were autonomy this from other day branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds weekend by 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 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 well but it requires the
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shutter is to constantly find new clients. it was stored here with a bigger targets was warning shoot first. alan evans expertise in arresting multiple people. after twenty years of patrol duty and when she took parish he knows the district well. fortunately. you know some days we only rest for five some days we'll raise tuner poil you know just don't arceo. your hand you know it just becomes ago when the weather gets better like this bertie and sunny outside usually going to rest more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out to move the street fighting one on
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the way round them all up we took into the title jail. passed by the most other wrist parceling muscle or game allow floater to. disperse and they wouldn't aspire so we just start arresting people and finally everybody took off and lay off. so we ended up with fourteen of. ten allen sets a personal arrest record a 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 us needs. help to him and rent people out. in them when you come in here where years would bring several false or as it were coming to work something. first better crime reported or overhears this a lot of disturbances. people. years where it's 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. going 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'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 of our set up here you know our whole like the fifty and one. and they do have a. really great name put back to the south they don't go anywhere i mean they're
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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. and 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 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 are laid out closely there is no privity. will. never want to remand prisoners sleep beside conveyed. felons.
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russell is full of ideas about how to reduce costs. where people would go visit him between glass talk to lease 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 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 our coord salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put them back in debt because if they if they
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occur if they re a real thing at. least they all say we should at least be problems here. just like back here so when did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look there because i'm going to pay. the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you did back you know our friends our family is a family you know it's a twenty eight days and you married twenty years have been locked up twenty. three to get home it's not a. new look in the. there's
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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 these same people will translate their hostility into even military action the war cabinet is mobilizing. join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. with no make this manufacture consent to instant of public wealth. when the
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ruling classes project themselves. the financial larry go around to lift certainly the one percent told. us to bring all middle of the room sick. to million real news. the world. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. your at the top to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry honey 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 fret . but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again
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still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark 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 different person to speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. bases are the most profitable inmates there are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return it first drug manufacturing jobs reduced to just opinions on work where they know where they need to be in the media's ok and once we have the jobs we take them to and they pay a percentage of their salaries for their stay for their baby further housing for their. transportation for their meals for they go back to into the park to go to
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the chair stop 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 the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah i'll say which nasa let you be sure you know stayed out there forever wishing to know you know what a. crazy man and then. i can see later on. many louisiana residents have been to prison. they are due for two and
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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 i really really believe 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 look. good 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. you got shot of mccarthy. i was picked up. once and then laid all released and picked up again. from. always here.
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toward have yours and i. was. the store owner i didn't see none. came in the store always thing with. my lawyer. did he mention anything about a tad too distinctive features she said no so or so you lego or mark pointed on the pits and. he said that he didn't see anything as she was like we had ever made her for monsieur and he went to the store earlier today and then later on. torn to 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.
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was different from. that conditionally were. probably showers dollar means for too much 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 going the earth to me is a chain of command you know our stars which were lost for us music to take these. from you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody from now saga come and see what's going on. to get away with. the death of this arabic at that. frank's is not an exceptional story.
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louisiana was late to abolish slavery but african-americans still had to fight for their rights. a cute guy to talk you got here. it was me and one nine hundred sixty three it was me. fifty four years ago. there 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 their mistreating 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 describe what i feel about that.
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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 they fix laws such that the newly freed people formalistic 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 use all kinds of means a way to to foot the sales. so the sheriff in those places
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all using that as 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. didn't want to spend the money zero. zero zero zero zero officers because i was only inmate those want to go to the hospital. they feel like i would then report. yet when i was almost dead they they sent me if they would say me the hospital
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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 out the membrane kavi 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 the piece optic nerve on the back side and permanently damaged. it was in the hospital in 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 positive and they said yes you all. the time. yes. you there for everything you know pretty low. on life and. knowing.
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steve returns to prison but his treatments didn't begin until months later thanks to social workers like darren stanley and prisoners can hope for medical care as a source we're going to figure out how to get that medication soon to you in a blister pack and 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
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prison of new orleans is finally in the past it was one of the was in the united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building you know even inside it's very different. than our ideas on our condition hybrid things him leading to sort of a kidney disease you know ma'am have you ever been exposed to. anybody else i think so it's raised disease and i'm around on a time when i'm out. health questionnaire is a brand new concept in louisiana presence. 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
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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 choose 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 you would 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 awful sheriffs.
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