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as show over adapted stories from baird for you so let's do it first up our truth bomb natalie mcgill has discovered yet another twist the dimension of the prison industrial complex check it out. at some point you may have said or even heard a coworker say the phrase that's above my pay grade it's what you say when you're being asked to do something that's beyond your skill level and expertise. it's also the official motto of the entire white house cabinet. unfortunately the people who work in our federal prisons and teachers nurses and more don't have the luxury of adopting that same motto when asked to do things above their pay grade because i've spent a little prisons run low on guards nurses and cooks are filling in the federal bureau of prisons refers to this corner cutting practice as an augmentation because as we
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all know the fancy term to describe something terrible takes the sting out of you know the way your job calls your layoff or reduction in force and how i call my own farts old factory expressions one bureau of prisons nurse even told usa today we did a radio and set of keys and we don't know which keys fit which doors just the radio i want to set of key. pieces clearly setting these civilian workers up for failure . or at the very least making them the world the least competent high school janitor. in an attempt to look less like a high school basketball coach who uses his entire bench when a star player comes down with the norovirus feel peace spokesman justin long told usa today when an insufficient number of correctional. officers are available to
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cover an institution's critical custody post on any given shift institutions rely on overtime and the reassignment of other institution staff including public service officers who are all considered correctional workers to cover such posts and for nurses teachers and other staff who start their jobs at federal prisons they're considered a correctional worker after three weeks of basic correctional training yet actual correctional officers receive a year of probationary training a chance to learn but ins and outs of working about housing units to give you an idea of how absurd it is for the v.o.p. to think three weeks of correctional training isn't enough though stubborn as an officer concerned that it takes twenty one weeks on average according to the bureau of justice to become a police officer in america and even that is way too little given that this is how
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one officer with twenty seven years of experience responded to a utah nurse who was with him her rights to not let him draw her patient's blood. i mean. in several states like california it takes two times longer to become a professional hairdresser than a cop and shiela bob still ended up with this haircut but federal prison clearly understaffed and the below he expecting to cut up to sixty thousand positions campaigns in the twenty eighteen budget would trump approve a one hundred six million dollar increase the b.o.p.'s budget. with that much money a senate report told the b o p to scale back on augmentation and hire more staff. west virginia senator joe manchin even wrote a letter to be o.-p. director mark entsch requesting details information about feels he's planned to use
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additional money however as of april buffel sources confirmed that the bureau is moving forward with its staffing cuts anyway. so you have the money to make the problem go away but you're not going to. ok either these people have never had a mistress before or they remember her and realize money doesn't always make your problems disappear or maybe it's because the bureau of prisons never really had any plans to fill vacancies because just days after b.o.p.'s officials had a conference call about the expected thousands of cuts in federal prison staff out ala now we do memo from the b o p entitled increasing population levels in private contractors syllabi instead of hiring more correctional officers so we don't have to rely on unqualified teachers and nurses to keep watch this mellow suggests
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moving prisoners around to places where there is a profit motive to keep them imprisoned. even when it's twenty sixteen d.o.j. inspector general report found that compared to federal facilities the private facilities confiscated eight times as many contraband cell phones had higher rates of assaults and were placing inmates rights and needs at risk unfortunately we think jeff sessions for this likelihood since he took time from his busy schedule of napping under his favorite lynching tree to roll back and obama era policy that would eventually end the use of federal private prison contracts. i mean. reversing the policy was the least sessions could do to thank trump for his current job given that out of the eleven private prisons and contract with the b o p naing
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are operated by private prison juggernauts core civic and geo group who gave two hundred fifty thousand dollars and four hundred seventy five thousand dollars to president trucks campaign and inauguration respectively and relied on teachers in particular to stand guard has led to you were prisoners receipt. genius during the twenty seven to fiscal year two thousand six hundred sixty seven federal inmates earned a ged down about sixty percent from the previous year the world's poor and accept bender is already going to be hard enough they'll face a lack of jobs housing and family or friends who want to take them in or even be around them. but if we pull the support staff inside the prison that's supposed to keep them stable and help improve their lives in favor of corporate handouts for feeding the president just through a complex then we cripple them for life outside prison. like everything else in
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this administration this is taking a step backward. and after that particularly of progressive all factory expression i'll be taking steps backward as well. reporting from the department of justice natalie mcgill redacted tonight. wow. here's an idea let's drastically reduce mass incarceration by not having a racist system that puts people in prison for nothing crimes and then teachers would have to double as guards just the thought. anyway next up a highly under-reported and shocking aspect of the tragic tale of libya here's naomi care of already with the raging controversy.
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still unanswered questions about why the u.s. and nato bombed libya back to the stone age and twenty eleven a trial unfolding in france might offer us clues the former french president at an angry as men and munchkin land you go last sergeant posey is under arrest and facing charges for illegal campaign financing according to french media star cosey funded his two thousand and seven presidential campaign with fifty million dollars those from could yes that gadhafi later in twenty eleven spearheaded a campaign against with missiles from nato and the best way to return a favor i'd say maybe and edible of arrangement would be fine you know the french mean business when they arrest a leader but you can find a story anywhere in u.s. media except for the intercept in some of the online blurbs blurbs imagine of louis
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the sixteenth got a blurb in american papers at the time before the arab spring in two thousand and eleven so our cozy or president bling bling as he was so nicknamed for his spending was the best of friends with the kingdom breakdowns in two thousand and seven months after bling bling won the presidential election he invited to the obvious that of his iconic bedouin tent in front of him leaving a leg then some cosey turned his back on his old and body and sarkozy became the first head of state to recognize the posing transitional council as libya's legitimate government issuing a death sentence to take up. by the way how are we going to spell khadafi is it with a g. as a with the k. . with a q then the story of the fifty million euros started to come out gadhafi told french media that it's thanks to him he became president and so are cozy is
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mentally deficient that's not nice to call a politician we refer to them as. and in the french. i wouldn't say that he's mentally deficient but sarkozy did try to ban star cozy blue dolls while touting him self as a champion of the free market the invisible hand can do no wrong until it starts poking with needles shukri gonna was libya's oil minister took notes on the three payments made to start closing and twenty twelve french news website media part started to leak documents about the fifty million votes one day later dunham's body was found in the danube river now officially the cause of death was a heart attack. where he just happened to be on a river bed and just happened to fall into the water you know a telltale symptom of a heart attack is being struck by the sudden desire to take
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a dip in one of the sixteen as seen on t.v. a lebanese arms dealer testified and reenacted that he delivered. in suitcases to start closing but that can't be credible testimony trying to be and that's obviously a higher performer you know and maybe they should have gotten somebody better because he's not that good of a mind so cozy denied the allegation that you received cash from libya to find him soon two thousand and seven campaign stated basis they're going. to do. what a disgrace. would. on public television you know well aren't you ashamed to court a man who has been in prison. it was a yes or no question you could have just a no last year u.k. parliamentary inquiry found that there was little hard evidence that could offer
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you was actually targeting civilians but you have to understand where nato is coming from. gadhafi sounded pretty soon really angry in his speeches that was the evidence that they used to convince the world that he was indiscriminately slaughtering his citizens he was yelling france which and then initiated the military intervention was motivated by good nomic and political interests not humanitarian ones in other words african countries get global economic dominance basically continuing in the middle of the old pathway i mean we go to best know that libya today is divided between three rival governments that seems like she many governments and a myriad of armed groups backed by external powers like the u.a.e. and egypt that seems like too many proxy wars you know and security gap there's no time to do you know ok but before nato invaded libya had less of its population and
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poverty than the netherlands libyans had access to free healthcare education electricity and loans and women had great freedoms that had been a u.k. had an inquiry france has this gregson investigation everyone's coming to terms with their past even the swedes confess swedish meatballs their national dish are actually a turkish recipe you know what those mean poles were to use it to assemble to be a suite of products you know like my lopsided dresser and my offsider fish but the u.s. remains in denial the truth is true anti-war for. the mainstream media and to leftists for the left because apparently killing families far away is something everyone can get together and agree on you know it might not have been entirely a personal vendetta or an attempt to whitewash for cover ups are closing its
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campaign financing but it must be done and lee. reporting from washington is there with their luggage. we have to go to a quick break but don't forget you can check out all of our videos a you tube dot com slash redacting tonight i make sure to follow us on twitter at redacted tonight we'll be right back. many of you a few comments seven comes to believe that we shan't should get out of the song and come to some of the festivities. but let's be honest and park about to do the see the final decision on this issue. has to come from watching. those
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washington is utilizing wind utilized to do all three rules. fifty years ago breaking and within to come together as a sleeping pill and dusty switched on leave because the two of us has said to the scientific what terrible but not on the road. induction untroubled will be here not the wall then boom boom up across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical times itself as well as the concert mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been called the justice and there's been a couple of.
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