Transcripts For RT Documentary 20180102

Body you the most the target africanamerican. I put them to their own heart and not. In the same boat as log out of jail man ya know thats why i got in the. Middle of all the people there really is a fake us man good one john good. Many relaying silence to the fear of reprisals. They dont they dont talk. They disapprove. Its just arrest them for not been in their resume pick them up all day charging all kind of charges. They know what the law is no communication you know is always aggressive nobody all never told me just put in a big deal you say you know old person if you try to search you go you know those. This for. Bill money yes i want the money as it is a bill thats what they want to do that loan they dont give a damn if you did the georgia not going to. Allow it if you can beat a good beating cause theres a. Good line of. God too and i have. Got a new car with no. Two thousand and eleven to two thousand ford and about it. Just the courthouse. Status i know some people leaders from saying man your parish. They come into the parish 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. 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. 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 prison. They are elected by fervent supporters. Any explanation to anyone. For every prisoner the state pays twenty four dollars a day. The sheriff used that money as they see fit. To meet one of these powerful men. Next stop the forest parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. Illegally good work this morning the sheriffs asking about any new come as. And we have no one to 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 arrests arrests. And so person comes here in the booking officer takes over that points stand to start booking anyone this morning. Does get a minute. Ok. Step out forming question back on the small. Towns out. Into the rest ill visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but incarcerated every cell is occupied and take out what. Do you do. 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 we dont want her parents around here. Its in the catwalk or the 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 sheriffs compete to collect the most state every prisoner means cash. Heres the uniqueness of this. 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 are autonomy from other branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds we can buy 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 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 sheriffs 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. Up to twenty years of patrol duty it was she to perish he knows the district well. Fortunately. You know some days we only restore 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 saudi. Use were 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 were talking about are going to jail. Us by the most auguries Department Must or give them a lawful order to. Disperse. They wouldnt aspires that we just order rest of people and finally everybody took over. So we ended up with fourteen of. Alan sets a personal arrest record at the Council Housing area where rent is low. Blow his folks down here they wont. They wont tell you tony the way that you because somebody so you dont do it they go think that. Theyre what they call a snitch. Talked to him and people out. In them when you come in here where years would bring several officers that were coming to work so the. First better reported or heres this a lot of the star witness. People. Years with drug related they are going over that. The suspects and then taken to which its a prison. They were here. And when they get there theyre rented to the sheriff. Dont want to go make a tour go see what its like around and say oh the well dont warms like this is it with ok youre it great and it will show you around a bit. One thousand one hundred fifty prisoners are living in very basic conditions this is what all of are set up here you know our whole like to about fifty in each one. And i did have a. Brief race and then flew back to the south they dont go anywhere i mean they are very here twenty four sevenths after that. 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 theres someone out here with that guy 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 there is no privy. To what they have or what remand prisoners sleep beside convicted felons. Say 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 will we dont have to search for many more on 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 moneys like to see it 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 theyre basically paying us to put them back in day. If they if they occur if they re a real thing in. These town halls we should have used the poems here. Just a back here so we did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look only there im going to say. At. Sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. No more he had back our own homes our family my family nothing for. Twenty eight days twenty years i have been locked up twenty. Three to get home its ok for you. To. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Its the cradle of jazz. The america is the america we. Dont know this jazz feel. The city of climatic. Alligators on the loose of poverty and crime to use by the least twelve members of my friends close not heard of street racing in the heat of the night this is. The best place in the world. In the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox customs. Is controlled by them and they imposed the opening times. Before the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecans oh and modigliani i cant boards unsold inside this warehouse thats where the report comes in. Discrete commercially discreet also discreet secrets they concern fraud. Some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the Geneva Freeport system youll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the worlds black box of the art business. Infinitely. From. The from from. 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 into the chairs up 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 wants everything to fight for everything. You can the sheriff doesnt want to lose out on this lucrative business. It. Deserves a chance yeah so nasa let you be sure you know stayed out forever wishing to go down there you know what a. Crazy man and then. I wake at the audacity like. Many Louisiana Residents have been to prison. They are in for two and a half yes frank was in custody for a robbery he was involved in shootings anyone on the street even in front of their own house is under suspicion really really did they all run the risk of being checked yeah and i go to watch our 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 issue new video. That you got shot of me. I was picked up. Once and then laid all released and was picked up again. From. I was here. Toward a half year and i. Was there at the store and i didnt see nobody. Came in the store all you see with this soda in my lawyer. Didnt mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so youre lego or 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. Then and then later. When i have years later i was released. Through. Two and a half years in custody and made the twenty six year old father of five rights rap songs. Songs about life for louisiana prisoners. Bring. It conditionally were. Showers dollar me for too much very cold showers. Or whatever. To 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 a chain. You know. The local Law Enforcement is the detectives. From you know Work Together and i mean of of nobody. Is going. To get away with. This here because. Franks is not an exceptional story. Louisiana was late to abolish slavery but africanamericans still had to fight for their rights. But you got to talk you got here. It was me and one nine hundred sixty three that was me. Fifty four years ago. That was when. 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 their mistreating from seeking to have dance civil rights. After years of political activity Calvin Johnson became the first black judge in louisiana. Hes often dealt with sheriffs. There are words i can use to to describe how well i feel about that. But then you would have to cut those words out of this interview. Because lavery had ended the way to keep people in slavery was to use the Justice System and they fixed laws such that the newly freed people for missing would be put back in jail and then be forced to go back on the plantations and work its not that they are. I 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 a ways to to fund ourselves so the sheriff in those 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 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 send me the hospital sooner. Then that. The infection. They would sell my hair would probably wouldnt even be in there my spinal fluid build up my spine or calm got up from my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push my face you had as i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets really piece of the optic nerve on the back side of 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 positive and they said yes you are. Right. Yeah. He did talk about everything you know there is no. Last and. Only me and. Steve returns to present but his treatments didnt 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 and a blister pack. 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 eight of the 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 you know even inside its very different. Than our ideas on heart condition hypertension and bleeding just want a Kidney Disease no maam and we havent been exposed to. Any venereal not sexually transmitted disease the amount 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. 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. And unambiguous 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. Office selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battle. For new thought for the tell you that because of the public by itself most important day. Off the bad guys and you are not old enough to buy their products. All the hawks have a lot. Of what. Hello my names peter and ive been living in bushnell for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things ive got to look through in the time. When youre going to get. The money because it just published or did you cry because the pilots. License is not sufficient. To. Financial Survival Guide stacey lets learn about fill out lets say im not so i get here please. Tom thanks for the fight street spot thank you for taking. Destroy thats right. Thats slavery. 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