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 a very large number of federal authorities investigate through this man on the john came back. some. close up but. no again. all coming up a a bad idea. 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 gone in the woods called the woods this is where most of they hang out

they 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 them to their own heart and not. only the same but as locked out of the old man ya know that's why i got to know. the people there really is a fake us man good i'm john good. many overlaying silence to the fear of reprisals. even if they don't talk. they disapprove. it's just a rest i'm from not been in their resume pick them up all day charging all kind of charge and. they. one communication you know is always aggressive.

bresson if you try to search you go in those. three bill money for their money as it is about when the bell bill that's what they want to get at loan they don't give a damn if you didn't charge or not. allow it if you can beat a good beating there's a. good line of. the two and i have. had a good car with no. two thousand and eleven to two thousand or two and not a. course or just the courthouse. status some people

to save leaders from saying man your parish. they come in pairs like coming back intact because they have jim crow mentality. that 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. or incarceration rate is twice as high as the us average ten times. 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. for every prisoner other state. twenty four dollars

a day. the sheriff used that money as they see fit as we leave plots to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forest parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. it's. really really good work this morning the sheriff's asking about any new 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 have left the process just two more are they warrants or arrests arrests of people and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points stand to start booking anyone small it. doesn't get a minute. ok. step off for me question back on the small. towns 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. 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 the only way the correctional officer has accidents is with him 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 louisiana 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 branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds we can buy sell lease purchase 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 there is that selected 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 the bigger targets was more your street force. alan evans expertise in

a resting multiple people. that could be. up to twenty years of patrol duty and was she to parish he knows the district well. fortunately. you know some days we only respond or five some days we'll raise tuner poil 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. use we're going to risk more people. i think it was fourteen people right up here 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. us by the most auguries department must order my lawful order to. despite.

that they wouldn't aspire so we just started arresting people and finally everybody took off in laos. so we ended up before taking up. alan sets a personal arrest record the council housing area where rent is love. for these folks down here they won't. they won't help tell you tony the way that you because somebody so you can do it they go and think that. they're what they call a snitch. told to him and rant people out. in them when you come in here where years would bring several officers that were coming to work something. first better reported or here's this a lot of disturbances. people. years with drug related they are going over that drove. 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 your 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 are set up here you know it's all this whole who likes it about fifty and one. and you know for race and then put back to the south they don't go anywhere and here they are thirty or twenty four seventh's of 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 that guy but if not he can sit right here and he can watch the whole. all for. when there's all cameras in each norms 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 privity. will. never want to 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 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. 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 day ok if they if they occur if they re a real thing and. we stand also we should at least be poems and hear hear . they buy their soul wounded to remodel took all the walls out so you just go one

clear little only very good i'm going home for the next day. and the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. no more you did back off so our family is a family not and so now it's the twenty eight days twenty year i have been locked up twenty. three to get home to. do you. believe.

that our son was someone said all of them mama. i don't. know how long it will. be l.v. to live the fifty. i'm not critical of but if there could be chilcote for you know . sort of. what i mean yanukovych with that he's going to itself with us will. the question is still yes but oh yes the chest. wound that is. of the.

join me every thursday on the all excitement chill and i'll be speaking to get us out of the world of politics sports business i'm sure both of those i'll see of that. then what i want them anymore but i'll go on. for yours will call you out of a. good obit and democracy and what about and i didn't do it will always be good is it also. muslim or noble into our house hold. on a partition. to. keep it or don't or don't let you be come up with the truth. come on don't you know about that i live in the mad at that game and the money on his i'm. not bad was the intended but oh november bit of i say i give them their

a gentle point about on it and that i will meet his eyes it and it is about. these are the most profitable inmates they are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at night service manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on where they need 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 for their housing for their transportation for their meals for all of that they go back to into the department go into 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 wants everything to fight for everything. because of the sheriff doesn't want to lose out on this lucrative business. it. deserves a chance yeah i absolutely you'd be sure you know stayed out there forever wishing you know you know what a. crazy man 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 the shooting anyone on the street even in front of

their own house is under suspicion not really related if they all run the risk of being checked yeah and i go to what sam radio you know they don't get no respect. he's talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. that love. to. call a moderate video of people in the street. that would be seen at a cost is a model really your people in history so yes new issued a new video and i. got shot of my god. i was picked up. once then laid all released and was picked up again. from. i was here. toward a half year and i. was. the store owner i didn't see none.

came in the store always seeing with. my lawyer. didn't mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so you're like go on mark good point 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 today and then later. when i have years later i was released. through. 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. bring.

it conditionally were. showers dollar nice for too much very cold showers. or whatever. who know. they were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention. you know like. no you know voice would be the most. to me is it it saying. i would say the local law enforcement is ridiculous million. from you know they all work together and i mean of of nobody coming soon is 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. 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 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. they all 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 leave three in did the way to keep people in

slavery was to use the justice system and they fixed laws such that the newly freed people homeless slaves 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 bad 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 all victims of the system because we are a poor state and we have use 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

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 because i was only inmate those want to go to the house but. they feel like i would then report. 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 there my spinal fluid built up my spine or count got up from my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face you had as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets. the optic nerve on the back side and permanently damaged. i 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. and they said yes you are. time. yeah. you do it for everything you know there is no. one left and. only 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 a source of work and to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack and 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 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 just in the

united states. the new prisoner looks like an office building. even inside it's very different. than our i dislike heart condition hypertension and bleeding just want a kidney disease no ma'am and we haven't been exposed to. any venereal sexually transmitted diseases on a tiny amount. 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 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 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 awful sheriffs.

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