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They come in pairs like coming back intact because they have jim crow mentality they always head. The africanamerican is less of a man especially the male is less of a man. If 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 not seeing 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. 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. Illegally good work this morning the sheriffs asking about any new comers. And we have no one the process this morning. How many have you process so far. Its ok and how many have left the process just two more are they warrants are or. Asked for us to get in and so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone small it. Doesnt get a mins. Ok. Step off forming place in back of us want to go. Down as out. Into the rest ill visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but in kosovo right at every cell is occupied it 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. Im sure we dont want her our town. Its 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. Said the sheriff compete to collect the most state every prisoner means cash. Heres 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 were autonomy this 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 j. The greatest job in the world its as close to being a king as any job there is thats elected i love it so much of a dinner for twenty five years. Its the best job in the well but it requires the sheriffs to constantly find new clients. It was stored here with a bigger targets was warning shoot first. Alan evans expertise in arresting multiple people. That could be. Up to twenty years of patrol duty and was she to perish he knows the district well. Fortunately. You know some days we only wrist for five some days well raise tuner poil you know just dont arceo. Your hand you know it just becomes ago when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and starting out. Usually going to risk more people. I think it was fourteen people right up here in this intersection i rolled out to move the street fighting one on their way round them all up were talking about are going to jail. Must by the most other wrist parceling months or gave them a lawful order to. Disperse they wouldnt aspire so we just start arresting people and finally everybody took off and lay off. So we ended up before taking a. Kid allan sets a personal arrest record the Council Housing area where rent is low. Low his folks down here they wont. They wont help tell you tony the way that your book goes somebody so you can do it they go think that. Theyre what they call us needs. Help to him and right people out. And then when you come in here where years would bring several officers at work going to work so. First better reported or hears this a lot of the star witness. People. News where is drug related they are going over the. The suspects and then taken to which its a prison. And when they get there theyre rented to the sheriff. You dont want to go make a tour go see what its like round and sail the well dont warms like this is who it ok you are 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 our set up here you know our whole like the fifty and one. And they do have a. Really great name put 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 would think but if not he can sit right here and he can watch the whole. All for. When theres all 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. Is no privet war. Was never one remonde prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. Say russell is full of ideas about how to reduce costs. Where people would go visit him between glass top 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 will we dont have to search for many more all saturdays and sundays and its Cost Effective not to real now that may and how were 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 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 i said do go back in the public say they go to Law Enforcement they go to our equipment our card salaries things of that nature so theyre basically paying us to put them back in day because if they if they occur if they re a real thing and. We stand also we should have used the problems here. Just way back there so when did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear little lead there to im going to pay. The sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. No more you had back you know our friends our family my family you know. For twenty eight days you married twenty years have been locked up twenty. Three to get home but take a. Look at the. When you dont. See the. What did they cook to do. What are the most true only ten space. Left in the building said. No servants it is the state that. You speak french. That said. Lets send. This busy signal to itself to. About one hundred of them i did but thats not a cut i mean you know i mean my. Dismissal but you know me a little much to be still slot. Machine of slate feel compelled to. Give it doesnt have to go. Through another sunday to the left about a lot of people get it that some. Time and most will go down. As become a hot item. Criminon would come the most and then the police news. From some listener count somehow must post some solo some made out. Of the from the one that hit. Everybody and stephen both. Hollywood. Guy suspects every proud american first of all im just George Washington and r. V. Enthusiastic this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well just a little bit different i thought of going going going up there oh no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the road have some fun meet everyday americans. And hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the Great American pill which. What politicians do something that. They put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president im sure. Most somewhat want to be. The two going to be for us to see what the before three in the morning cant be good but im interested always in the waters of our. Question. 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 to go to the chair stopped so its 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 once everythings paid for everything. Because of the sheriff doesnt want to lose out on this lucrative business. It. Deserves a chance yeah nasa let you be sure you know stayed on it forever wishing you could have made out a. Crazy man and then. I wake at the layer of. Many Louisiana Residents whove been to prison. They are there for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in shooting anyone on the street and even in front of their own house is under suspicion not really related if they all run the risk of being checked yeah and they go to what sound radio you know feel good moment he. Is talking. About the police who patrol the area at walking pace. Down the. Data base models 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 all night. Because you got shot of my god. I was picked up. Once and then laid all released and was picked up again and from there 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 soda in my lawyer. Didnt mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no its all so youre lego why did mark get cornered on the pits and. He said that he didnt see anything and she was like we had have a maze of for monsieur and he went to the store earlier. And then later on. When i have years later i was released. From. 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. Three. Sleep. Away. From the red. Conditionally were. Doing 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 were big enough to me as a chain of command you know its a Law Enforcement is the detectives need. From there you know they all Work Together and i mean of of nobody could come and see was 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 to talk you guys 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 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. 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 then fix laws such that the newly freed people form of this needs would be put back in jail and in the. Forced to go back on the plantations and work is not dead they are. A mean people of bad people 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. You want to spend the money on. Own not there to your officer because i was only inmate those want to go the house but. They feel like i would never important. Yet when i was almost dead they they sent me if they would say me the hospital sooner. Then. The infection and they would tell my here i would probably wouldnt even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine or count got up to my brain cavity pushed my brain open was pushing forward on the turn to push it through my face. You had as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the back side permanently damaged. 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 positive and they said yes you are. Right. Yeah. We need to talk about everything you know pretty low. On left and. So on and. Steve returns to prison but his treatments didnt begin until months later thanks to social workers like Darren Stanley prisoners can hope for medical care as a source were going to figure out how to get that medication soon to you and a list of. His who say 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 h. L. V. 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 our ideas on heart condition hypertension and bleeding just want to make it easy you know maam. Have you ever been exposed to. Any venereal not sexually transmitted disease no maam on a timely. 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 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 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. 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