a new point about not me but i have the old being decisive and it is about. kind of financial survival john today was all about money laundering first to visit this confession to three different. oh good that's a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in europe something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in the tough talk or say we just have to get much gold and say hey i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did while we've got all got a nice luxury watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry and how about. luxury automobile again for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal don't be a close watch guys are of course. field

plot 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 very large number of federal authorities investigate through this man john came back to sampson. was about. 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 betray a rest in a city where no one talks without him would be lost talking to residents would be impossible especially with a camera crew going there would call the woods this way most of the hangout not out

right now but this late on deceived this is where they all will be hanging out. to see the error. then won't bother you the most the target african-american. with them to their own heart and not. on the same road as log out of here man ya know that's all i've got to know. and what i want told the people there really is a fake us man. i'm john. many relaying silence to the fear of reprisals. if they don't talk. they disapprove. they would just arrest them for not then in their resume pick. charge and all kind of charge and. they know what communication you know is always aggressive.

never told me do. you know breasts and try to search you go in the. book or they won't have bill money any one of their money as it is about us when the bell bill does what they want to do that at the moment they don't give a damn if you did the chores are not going to. allow it if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. i've got to and i have. had a good car with no. doubt and eleven to two thousand foot and. a. cost of just the courthouse the sheriff and the d.a.'s office davis i know some

people to save 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 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. but 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. 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 good and so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone this morning. doesn't get a minute. ok. stefan forming question back on this want to go.

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. of it. every day our jail 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 time here. it's in the catwalk or the corridor in the old analogy you know the only way the correctional officer has access to it with him walking the perimeter next. to the system has one. twisted detail funding is based on occupation. said the sheriff

compete to collect the most state of 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 autonomy us 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 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. after twenty years of patrol duty and was she to perish he knows the district well . you know some days we only rest before five some days will return or toil you know just don't arceo. you're going to drink you know it just becomes a go when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and saudi out so used to going to rest more people. i think it was fourteen people right up there 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. the mossad arista parceling nothing to give them a lawful order to. disperse. they would despise that we just start arresting people

and finally everybody took off and left so we ended up with fourteen. here allan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. folks down here they won't. they won't talk to you only the way that you because somebody so you can do think that. they're what they call a snitch. till the 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 where it's drug related they argued over the drugs. the suspects and then taken to which it's a prison. and

when they get there they're rented to the sheriff's. young want to go micah to go see what it's like around and say a lot of them will don't warms i guess is doing ok. 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 are set up here you know this our soul like this about fifty and one. and they do have power that i rephrase the name but back you know they don't go anywhere and there are twenty four seventh's at that hour.

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 all cameras in each dorms and 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 prissie or. was never one to remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. say russell has 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 real now that may and how do we know 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 moneys like us to 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 really are a real thing in. least i also used at least the poems here. to play by ear so when did to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear

look very good i'm going home for the day. and the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. i. know or you did back or. our family is a family now and so now it's twenty eight days and you are twenty years i have been locked up twenty. for a good home it's a really good look into the. about

your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. you're at caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry 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 breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again 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 my mind it's consumed with death this one might

differ as i speak to you now as there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker. it's the cradle of jazz. there's no there's no merit there still there are good we are. good old there's jazz feeling. a city of climatic contests trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime forty years by the least twelve members a mile frail clothes most murders of street racing in the heat of the night this is new orleans was often the man it was the best place in the world.

and the use of the most profitable inmates there awaiting release to work outside the prison but they were to know it first drug manufacturing jobs or just to just appear on phone or were they where they need to be in the media's ok and once we handle jobs we take them to. they pay a percentage of their salaries for their state for their baby further housing for their transportation for their meals for all of it they go back to into the department to go into the chair stop so it's very profitable and that was baked ok . these hundred eighty two million mason net profit doesn't matter to me and i don't either ok profit and once everything's i for everything. you can the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah there was an absolutely you be sure you know stayed out forever wishing you know you know they were it was crazy then and then. i can see

later on. many louisiana residents have been to prison. they are there for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in shootings 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. to their coffee for models 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 mccartney. i was picked up. for once then little released and was picked up again. from. i was here. toward a half year and. i was at the store and i didn't see none. came in the store always thing with soda in my lawyer. did he mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so you're lego or mark pointed out in the pits and. he said that he didn't see anything as we had ever made a full monsieur and he went to the store earlier today and then later on. when i

have years later i was released. two and a half years in custody and made the twenty six year old father of five writes rap songs. about life for louisiana prisoners. my point was. that conditionally were. sours dollar me for too much very cold showers. who know. they were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention. you know like. no you know voice one big unknown. to me is a chain of command you know stores which you know where law enforcement is

a contiguous menu d.n.a. . from there you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody from now soccer come in see what's going on. to get away with. the list. franks is not an exceptional story. louisiana was late to abolish slavery but african-americans still had to fight for their rights. but you gotta talk you got here. with me in one nine hundred sixty three that was me. fifty four years ago. there with 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 the afghan 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. but then you would have to cut those words out of this interview. because lavery had indeed 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 that they are. a mean people of 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 a ways 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 he 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. didn't want to spend the money zero. zero zero zero zero because i was only inmate there was want to go to the house but. they feel like i was never 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 cavity pushed my brain open was pushing forward on the trying to push my face. as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the back side and permanently damaged. i was in the hospital in

they told me that i was a job very positive. told him they must have somebody else's records confused with mine because i'm not a thousand nine hundred yes you. yeah . you do talk about everything you know through your own laugh and. knowing. 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 of work and to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack says they 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 cost 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 finally in the past it was one of the was in the united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building. even inside it's very different. than our ideas for the heart condition hypertension and needed just want to make it easy you know ma'am and we haven't been exposed to. any venereal. disease on a time when i'm out. health questionnaire is

a brand new concept in louisiana prisons. the prison is proud of it that the procedure is still in its trial phase. it's not the sheriff but a prison spy. explain that 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 budgeting 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 and there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you

have the more money you 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 a stablish traditions independent parishes and old awful sheriffs. joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might

have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching them. it's only when themself a much larger mission was once there and that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not cleared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes that you. don't want by bragging that he will go back to one. or you will pull you out of. bed and him off and then what about and i didn't do it will always be good is it off the. shelf hung. on it i think. you know. keep it or don't or don't let you people

come up with you throughout the. night about the law you have and i'm having that damn and the money on because i'm . not bad with the internet but oh november that i say i give them they're going to like about it but i have the only thing it is about. what you know. what it would. that's what it was like oh look.

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