there was read about me sure it's a hospital and she says it was terrifying. we go to the mosque every day flowers amply scandals. well meanwhile the investigation into what caused the fire is progressing the two main areas of questioning are the malfunction of the fire safety system and also the possibility of arson five people have been arrested among them are two directors of the shopping center and the maker of the fire safety system the blazing camera was one of the deadliest in russia in decades it took firefighters over seventeen hours to put it out one section of the complex was completely gutted and large sections of the roof collapsed and the sixty four people who died almost two thirds were children because the school holidays had just begun. was the far far.

far back of the headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories. russia has gone from the highs of voter enthusiasm to the lovers of grief over the camera of a tragedy. the largest expulsion of russian diplomats from the west and putin thinks time is off to a rocky start how will he react. feel plot three hundred kilometers from new orleans far away from tourists jazz and mardi gras the small town is the gateway to state prisons in

a city of seven thousand seven hundred arrests in two years of very large number of federal authorities investigate through this man oh no john came back after sampson . was up but. those are. all coming up airbag by now. he's looking for witnesses. he was born here everyone knows him a. former soldier also decries arbitrary 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 wood called the woods this is where most of the 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. i put under the old. oh i don't know. i was saying let us log out of the old man got to know. the people there really is a fake us man like i'm john. many overlaying silent affair of reprisals. they don't they don't. they disapprove. cops. arrest them for not then in their arrest and they pick them up all day charge and all kind of charge and. they know what communication you know they always aggress. told to do. you see that you will dress and try to search you go you know

those. areas where they won't have bill money that's what their money as it is about this is about bill that's what they want to do that you know and they don't give a damn if you did the chores are not going to lock you up and gets you below it if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of i'm not going to and i have. not a good car wouldn't. let them through two thousand ford and about it it. just makes the course or just the courthouse on the shelf a doll stand to d.s.l. status among some people to save leaders from saying man your parish they say they come to paris like coming back in time because they have that jim crow mentality

they always head. to african-americans is the less of a man especially the male is less of a man. he wants to change that. the federal investigation. the first step but eventually in prison declines all interview requests. the sheriff isn't interested enough to ring 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. they don't do any explanation to anyone. for every prisoner 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. where you can do illegal good work this morning the sheriff's 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 arrest arrests to get started so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points center start booking anyone this morning our. get a minute. ok. staff are forming question back on this one if you go. into the rest i'll visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people were

incarcerated every cell is occupied and to take out for our children. every day our jail is beyond full we have a capacity of two hundred. eighty 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 . superdome occur on time. it's in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy you know the only way the correctional officer has access to it was in one room or next. to the system has one twisted detail funding is based on occupation. the sheriff's compete to collect the most state of every prisoner means cash. here's the uniqueness of the sheriff in the easy and it is that we are

a separate constitutional unit of local government we are autonomy us from the state and we're autonomy from other branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds weekend by police purchased property 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.

that could be. up to twenty years of patrol duty it was sheet a parish he knows the district well. you know some days we only respond or five some days we'll reach two hundred twenty you know just on our sheet. you know it just becomes a go when the weather gets better like this is part of us on the outside usually going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people running appear in this intersection i rolled out to move the street fighting one. way round them all the way to get into the jail. and i spy the most out of the rest of pars with nothing to give 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 with fourteen.

kids alan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. the folks down here they won't. they won't talk to you tony the way that you because somebody so you can do think that. they're what they call a snitch. talk to them and 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 ways drug related they argued over the droves. the suspects and then taken to which eats a prison. and when they get there they're rendered to the sheriff's.

want to go micah to go see what it's like around and say a lot of them well 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 our whole for like fifty and one. and they do have a. race in their back to the south they don't go anywhere i mean they're very here one course there is a. 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 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. they have one 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. 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 we're doing all right which saves a lot of money and loan. the maximum profit at any cost the sheriff will stop at night. the prisoners are put to work and 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 us to do go back in the public say they go to law enforcement they go to our whitman or card salaries things of that nature so they're basically paying us to put them back in jail because if they if they occur if they real real thing at. least they also used at least the poems here. just a back their soul wanted to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look like they're good i'm going to pay. the sheriff maintains

a relationship with every prisoner. i. know or you give back to our friends our family my family you know. twenty eight days twenty or. twenty. three to get home it's not a. good look into the. if i'm in the surgeon or terrorist group enjoys foreign sanctuary we've no matter how much malaysia to be put i show you all knew them they wouldn't be in one way to . really hibernate. come back time it would be like counting days

i'm not taking their lives. you know when you don't see. see the teachers who are. dead according to. what to me most said space. may. lead to the killing said. clinton no servant is messy that a. few speak french. let's send them all to new talk of. the council itself this. time about email but of the entire evil my dad.

had abandoned i mean by my money i know god. making a move to give him a disadvantage is to say so if you want. to live by the tenets forget that i've got to go to a large city because the. patient is. hopeful and i think kids will use. these are the most profitable inmates that are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they were first man franken job to just a just

a few months on who are they and where they need to be in the needy is ok and once we have the jobs we take them to they pay a percentage of their salaries for their stay for their bed even further housing for their transportation. for their meals for they go back to into the park to go to the chairs up so it's very profitable and that was faked ok. these hundred eighty two million mice net profit doesn't matter million dollars either ok profit and wants everything to fight for everything. because the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah so nasa let you be sure you know stayed out there forever wishing to know you know they. created an ad that. 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 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 one sam radio you know they don't get no respect. he's 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 mccartney. i was picked up. once then little released and picked up again and. from. ours here. toward have yours. was. the storm i didn't see none. came in the door always thing with. my lawyer. did he mention anything about a tad too distinctive features to say no soul so you leggo or mark pointed out the pits and. he said that he didn't see anything as she was like 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 made the twenty six year old father of five writes rap songs. songs about life for louisiana prisoners. was different from. the conditionally were. showers dollar means for too much very cold showers. dollars 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 the most. to me is a chain of command you know stars which will last for as long as it did take those . 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. this. frank. is not an exceptional story. louisiana was late to abolish slavery but african-americans still had to fight for their rights. a cute guy to talk you guys here. it was me and one nine hundred sixty three it 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 their mistreating from seeking to have dance 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 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 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 always to to foot the sales so the share. if 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. 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. you

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 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 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. 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 positive and they said yes you are. i'm. here. for your day. talk about everything you know through your. laugh and. all you 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 source we're going to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack says they they will do a job 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 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 for the heart condition hypertension and bleeding just want to make it easy you know ma'am have you ever been exposed. in even the areas sexually transmitted diseases. from our. 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 diem. meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie before the state when we had stayed in maids of so many dollars per inmate. that system we no longer use we receive aid budget just like many other agencies too and so we must operate within that budget should you. take care of all of our operations here under the ost system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money you would 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 awful sheriffs. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand down and news business you just need to ask the right questions and that man the right answer. question. the russians are coming for well over the last year

and a half this is the message western audiences have been served up twenty four seven what is behind this hysteria what does this message aim to achieve how is russia supposed to react importantly are we facing a possible complex. 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. it's only remnants of a much larger population 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 near the long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes.

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