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 woods called the woods this is where most of the hang out theyre not out right now but this made on deceived this is where they all be hanging out. To see the drug era. Then one bother you the most the target africanamerican. With under their own heart and not. In the same boat as log out of here man ya know thats why i got to know. The people there really is a fake us man good im john berman. Many relaying silence to the fear of reprisals. If. They disapprove. They would just arrest them for not then in their resume pick them up. On a charge and if. They dont. Want a case and you know its always aggressive. And you will dress and try to search you go in those. Areas where they wont have bill money want their money as it is about when the bill does what they want to do that at the moment they dont give a damn if you didnt charge a nut. Low in if you can beat a good beating theres a. Good line of. God too and. Not a good car wouldnt. Let them through two thousand foot and about a. Course or just the courthouse. To d. S. L. Status some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. They come into the parish like coming back intact because they have that jim crow mentality. Head. The African American is the 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 isnt interested in uttering any questions. The louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the us average and ten times. As in germany which makes it a world record. Of the sixty four sheriffs manages his own prison. And they are elected by fervent supporters. They dont 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. We leave to meet one of these powerful men next stop the forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country which you can do illegal good work this morning the sheriffs asking about any you come as. And we have no one the process this morning right how many have you process so far. Its 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 stand a start booking anyone this morning. Doesnt get a minute. Ok. Step out for me question back on this want to go. Into the rest ill visit lusted for two hours and in that time twelve people but incarcerated every cell is occupied and to take out for our children. 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. Im sure. One time. Its in the catwalk or in a corridor in the old now in jail the only way the correctional officer has access is. In one room or 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. Heres the uniqueness of the sheriff in the louisiana is that we are a separate constitutional unit of local government we are a ton of most 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 weekend by 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 its as close to being a king as any job that there is thats elected i love it so much of a dinner for twenty five years. Its 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 respond or five days will result in or toil you know just dont arceo. Youre going to drink you know it just becomes a go when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and saudi. Usually going to arrest more people. I think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out to move the street fighting one on the way round them all up we took into the taken to jail. Passed by the most other wrist parceling must say oh we gave them a lawful order to. Disperse they wouldnt aspires and we just started arresting people and finally everybody took off and left 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 wont. They wont tell you the only way that you because somebody so you can do it they dont think that. Theyre what they call us needs. Help to a woman right people out. In them when you come in here we use we bring several officers that were coming to work so the. First better crime reported or here is this a lot of disturbances. People fight news with drug related they are going over the. Suspects and then taken to which its a prison. And when they get there theyre rented to the sheriffs. Dont want to go make a tour go see what its like round and say oh the well dont warms like this is it with ok youre great 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 over set up here you know all are whole who like to fifty in each one. And i did our. Race back to the south they dont go anywhere i mean they are very here twenty four sevenths. 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 theres someone out here with their guy but if not he can sit right here and he can watch the whole. All for. When theres only four cameras and you know him so hes got to get out and he knows whats going on at all times just from sitting here. There are many cameras and only one god monitoring two hundred prisoners. Beds and 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 dont know what comes in it well we dont have to search for many more on saturdays and sundays and its Cost Effective not to realize that may and how were doing all right 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 theyre getting about forty percent off what theyre making but yet theyre paying for their incarceration ok so its a huge deal with those monies like to see it do go back into. Say they go to Law Enforcement they go to our whitman or coord salaries things of that nature so theyre basically paying us to put them back in jail because if they if they occur if they re a real thing and. We stay on wall street at least the poems are here. To stay but theyre still wanted to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look only very good im going to say. That the sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. I. Know you had back you know our friends our family my family you know. Twenty eight days twenty year. Twenty. Three to get home its. The. Fears of people have been saying about redacted and i suspect its full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to find you know what its really packed a punch. Yampa is the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently better than blue. Sea people youve never heard of love redacted tonight president of the world bank hates to. Send us an email. Across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet people this is the simple song alone even some company elsewhere they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us. Miss you guys you got the going to go buy been pieces of us to quote them out real kudos. For you man but the lift still brought up locals are ready just. For the basic human rights over access to water its about water but its also much more its about the hurt and the redistribution. Downwards the one dollar will. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure and ill be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. 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 departure to go into the chair stop so its very profitable and that was faked ok. These hundred eighty two million mason net profit us about a Million Dollars a year ok profit and once everythings paid for everything. You can to the sheriff doesnt want to lose out on this lucrative business. It. Deserves a chance yeah so there was no absolutely youd be sure you know stayed out for ambition to get out there 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 shootings that 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 dont get no respect. Hes talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. That love. To. A call 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 new issued a new video and i. Got shot of mccarthy. I was picked up. For once then little relief. Was picked up again and from. I was here. Toward a half year and i. Was there at the store and i didnt see none. Came in the door always thing with. My lawyer. Did he mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so youre like go on mark good point on the pits and. He said that he didnt see anything as she was like we had ever made a full monsieur and he went to the store earlier. And then later on. 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 right rap songs. Songs about life for louisiana prisoners. Three. Was different from. Every. It conditionally were. Showers dollar me foot to mush very cold showers. 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. Local Law Enforcement is ridiculous million. From you know they all Work Together and i mean of of nobody. Is going. To get away with. This. Franks is not an exceptional story. Louisiana was late to abolish slavery but africanamericans 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 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 other stuff that people had in the middle sixtys to stop africanamerican kids from demonstrating from seeking now dance civil rights. After years of political activity Calvin Johnson became the first black judge in louisiana. Hes often dealt with sheriffs. All 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 leave three in did the way to keep people in slavery was to use the Justice System and then fix laws such that the newly freed people form misleads would be put back in jail and then be forced to go back on the plantations and work is not dead they are. A main people of a people or its. Its 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 used all kinds of means always to to fund our sales so the sheriff in most places all using that as a means to fund. The sheriffs self and his and was needs to operate when hes 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. Didnt 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 would never 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 wouldnt even be in there my spinal fluid built up my spine or calm got up to my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on a chair in a push face you had as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the back side isnt permanent damage to. I was in the hospital and they tell me that i was a job the positive. Told and they must have somebody elses records confused with mine because im not. Yes you are. Im. Here. For you there for everything. Nothing no youre on last and. Only me and. Steve returns to prison but his treatments didnt begin until months later thanks to social workers like Darren Stanley and prisoners can hope for medical care as a source were going to figure out how to get that medication since you know blister pack this is a they will do a chevy medication in a blister pack. According to the sheriffs twenty four dollars per prisoner per day isnt 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 theres a lot of aids hiv positive 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 its very different. Than are ideal for a heart condition hypertension leading just want a Kidney Disease no maam and we havent been exposed to. Any venereal i sexually transmitted disease and im around on a time when im out. 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. Its 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 this state when we had stayed in maids of so many dollars per inmate. That system we no longer use we receive a 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 oath system there was an incentive to have more inmates because the more you have the more money to get. Outdated and inhumane. And ambiguous indictments of the states 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. Say we have a great seem. Needed to strengthen before the freefall world cold and youre better than a legend to keep it so its at the back. 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