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he's looking for witnesses. he was born here everyone knows him a. former soldier also 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 they'd gone in the woods called the woods this is where most of 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. i put them business owner on a whole lot and. i was a mess log out of the old man ya know that's why i got to know. the people there really is a fake us man. i'm john how. many relaying silence to use
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a filter of reprisals. they don't they don't talk. they disapprove. they would just read them for not then in their resume pick them up all day charging all kind of charges. they don't want you know and no communication you know is always aggressive in lowest level deal never told they didn't put in very big deal you see that you will dress in any way try to search you go you know those you know the next speaker three they won't have bill money yes want their money as it is about islam is about bill that's what they want to bill money didn't act alone 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 a good beating could. google around a lot is a good line of. two and a half years. not a good car with no. two thousand in them to two. course. i'm not
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a. perry gelhaus just read to him makes one course read it just the courthouse on the shelf and now if they had to d.f. davis i know some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come and see randy parish like coming back intact because they have jim crow mentality we all had. 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
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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 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 to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. illegal work this morning the sheriff's asking about any new comers. and we have no one the 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 of people
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and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone this morning. does get a mins. ok. step off 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 incarcerated every cell is occupied and take out what. do you do. 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 parents around here.
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it's in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy the only way the correctional officer has access to it was in walking a perimeter next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on occupation. the sheriff's compete to collect the most state every prisoner means cash. the uniqueness of the sheriff in the easy and it is that we are a separate constitutional unit of local government we are a ton of must from the state and we were autonomy from other way branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds we kin buy lease purchase property we can keep self generated revenue the next biggest area our responsibilities of running the. jail the greatest job in
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a well it's as close to being a king as any job that there is that's elected i love it so much i mean 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 shoot first. alan evans expertise in arresting 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 for five some days will return of toil you know just don't arceo. your hearing you know it just becomes a go when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and starting out.
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usually going to rest more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out the movers fighting one on the way round them all up we took in about taken to jail. passed by the most other risk department 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 over the way. we ended up before taking a. kid allan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is low. for these folks down here they won't. they won't tell you tony to wave at you because somebody so you can do it they go think that. they're what they call a snitch. talked to him and write people out. you know
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when you come in here where years would bring several officers that were coming to work so. first better reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people. 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 all of them 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 our whole for like the
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fifty and one. and i do have a. race back to the south they don't go anywhere i mean they're 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 would think 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 i don't i'm just i'm sitting here. there are many cameras and only one god monitoring two hundred prisoners. beds and laid out clothes. there is no privy.
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to. what they have or what remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. 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 well we don't have to search for meaning 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 on. 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
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law enforcement they go to our equipment or card salaries things of that nature so they're actually paying us to put them back in doing ok if they if they occur if they re a real thing at. least you know also we should have used the problems here. just a back here so we did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look like they're going to pay. at the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you head back are not our friends our family is a family now. for twenty eight days and you married twenty have been locked up twenty. three to get home but take a. look. it's
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the cradle of jazz. the america is the america we. don't know love this jazz feeling. a city of climatic contest trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime forty years by the least swell member of the mob family close member. of street racing in the heat of the night this is new orleans itself and the man who won the best place in the world coming. to.
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because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game but great so what chance with. and thinks this minute. these are the most profitable inmates there are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at night first manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on where they need where they need to be in the needy is ok and once we handle the jobs we take them to and they pay a percentage of their salaries for their state for their baby for their housing for their own transportation for their meals for all of that they go back into the department to go into the chair stop so it's very profitable in that respect ok. these hundred eighty two million mason net profit us from out of million dollars a year ok profit. and wants everything i poured everything. you can the
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sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah i'll say rich nasa let you be sure you know stay down there for ambition to get out there you know they. created the net and then. i can see later on. many louisiana residents have been to prison. they are due for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in shootings that 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 i go to want to. you know feel good knowing he.
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is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that love. to eat 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 you were shooting new video. because you got shot of me. i was picked up. for once and then laid all released and was picked up again and from there 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 soda in my lawyer.
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did he mention anything about ted two distinctive features she said no. so you're leggo or did mark get pointed out in the pits and i know. that he didn't say anything as we had every major from us yeah he went to the store earlier. and then later on. torn to have years later i was released. 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. bring. it conditionally were. showers dollar me for too much very cold showers. who know.
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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 our stars which were lost for as long as it did take those million. from there you know they all worked together and i mean of if nobody could come and see was going on. to get away with. death of the spirit because. frank's 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. with me in one nine hundred sixty three. me.
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fifty four years ago. there was me. i was one of them who led to demonstrations and it was met by people who with 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. there are words i can use to 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 they fix laws such that the newly
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freed people form listenings would be put back in jail and then be forced to go back on the plantations and work it's 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 or ways to to fund our sales so the sheriff in those places are using that as a means to fund. the sheriff's self in this was he needs to operate with he's using it for that purpose and the louisiana law the.
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third time he did one of those things i just described you could go to jail for life. i would not do. that but 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 those want to go to the hospital. they feel like i won their 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 here would probably wouldn't even be in their spinal fluid build up my spine or column got up
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a membrane kavi pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on a chair and pushed through my face. as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets the piece out on the backside as i'm permanently damaged. was in the hospital again they tell me that i was a job positive. told him i must have somebody else's records confused with man because i'm not positive and they said yes you are. i'm. here. for you therefore everything. no three no come on laugh and. knowing 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
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a source working to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack so 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 eight of the 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 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
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a heart condition hypertension leading to sort of a kidney disease you know ma'am have you ever been exposed to. any venereal. 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 called a per d.m. meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie with more of the state when we had stayed in maids of so many dollars per inmate. that system we no longer use we receive a. just like many other agencies too and so we must operate
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within that budget to. take care of all of our operations here under the oath 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 a state with established traditions independent parishes and old powerful sheriffs . for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers
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