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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 isnt interested in uttering 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. 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 fourth parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. Illegally. This morning the sheriff said. Asking about any you come as. And we have no one to process this morning right how many have you process so far. Its ok and how many you have left the process just two more are they warrants or arrest arrests. And so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points to start booking anyone small it. Does get a mins. Ok. Stefan forming place in back of us want to go. Into the rest ill visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but in kosovo to every cell is occupied it take out one cover. Every big star 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 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 were a ton of most from. Other branches of government we have our own budget we are able to raise our own funds we can buy lease purchase 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 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. That could be. Up to twenty years of patrol duty and white sheet a parish he knows the district well. Fortunately. You know some days we only respond or five some days well raise tuner poil you know just dont arceo. Your hearing you know it just becomes ago when the weather gets better like being with us bertie and saudi outside usually 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 Months or gave them a lawful order to. Disperse. They wouldnt aspires that we just start arresting people and finally everybody took over the way. So we ended up with fourteen of. Alan sets a personal arrest record the Council Housing area where rent is low. Maurice folk. Down here they wont. They wont tell you tony why you bet you because somebody so you can do it they go think that. Theyre what they call a snitch. Told 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 crowd reported or hears this a lot of disturbances. People far. News with drug related they are going over that. The suspects and then taken to with sheets of prison. And when they get there theyre rented to the sheriff. Ya want to go make a tour go see what its like round and sail the well dont warms like this is it with 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 over set up here you know its all a whole who likes to fifty and one guy and i do have a. Great name put back to the south they dont go anywhere and here they are thirty or forty four steps 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 forward when theres only four cameras in each gnomes and 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 prissie or. Was never one to 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. O. B. Is the taste and i dont know what comes in it well we dont have to search for meaning 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 teach him 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 i said do go back in the public say they go to Law Enforcement they go to our equipment or cart salaries things about nature so there are actually paying us to put them back into ok if they if they occur if they re a real thing and. We stand also we should have used the problems here which is very bad here so we did to remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look there to im going to pay. The sheriff maintains a relationship with every prisoner. No more he had back or no power for us our family is a family. Twenty eight days twenty years and. Twenty. Three to get home. And do. You mean you dont. See the teachers to attend. To what they mean not through. Let alone. Said. You know. That. If you speak french. You. Send. Them to. Los angeles the city of luxury and free but also an Alarming Number of People Living in the streets. Simple fact in l. A. Is theres just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in theres nowhere to come in its been a struggle. This man phoned his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. You know having Something Like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. On a city parking space is not a solution. Someone wanted touring the site otherwise itll be a free for all theyre a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. 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And these are the most profitable inmates there are awaiting release to work outside the prison but they return at Night Service manufacturing jobs or just it just depends on who are they and where they need to be in the needy is ok and once we have the jobs we take them to they pay a percentage of their salaries for their state for their baby further housing for their own transportation for their meals for all of it they go back to into the park to go to the chair so so its very profitable and that was a ok. These hundred eighty two million mason net profit of not a Million Dollars a year ok profit and once everythings paid for never fine. Because the sheriff doesnt want to lose out on this lucrative business. And. Deserves a chance yeah the very rich in nasa would you be sure you know stay down there for a Background Mission to know you know they were it was created in and then. Later on all right. Many Louisiana Residents have been to prison. They are due for two and a half yes frank was in custody for robbery he was involved in a shooting anyone on the street even in front of their own house is under suspicion i really really believe they all run the risk of being checked yeah and i go to want to. You know feel good nobody. Is talking about the police who patrol the area at walking pace. That love. To say from out of 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 video. I was picked up. Once and then laid all released and was picked up again. From. I was here. Was. The stone i didnt see none. Came in the store all these things. My lawyer. Didnt mention anything about a tattoo distinctive features no saw. So you go on mark good point on the pits and. He said that he didnt see anything. We had ever maser from us yeah he went to the store earlier. And then later. Two and a half years later i was released. Two and a half years in custody made the twenty six year old father of five write rap songs. Songs about life for louisiana prisoners. Sleep. Was. A conditionally were. Showers dollar nice foot too much very cold showers. You know. They were there are so many innocent people because nobody paid attention you know like. No you know voice were to be going over. To me as a chain of command you know our stars which were lost for us music to take was made. From there you know they all Work Together and i mean of of nobody could come and see was going. To get away with. Death of 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 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. Three years of political activity Calvin Johnson became the first black judge in louisiana. Hes often dealt with sheriffs. 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 lavery had indeed the way to keep people in slavery was to use the Justice System and they fixed laws such that the newly freed people for 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 mean people a 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 of 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 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 you 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. Him want to spend the money zero. Zero zero zero zero because i was only inmate that was going to go to the hospital. They felt like i won then important. 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. Would probably wouldnt even be in their spinal fluid build up my spine or got up from my brain cavity pushed my brain up and was pushing forward on the trying to push it through my face. As i reminded it was about to pop out of sockets the piece of the optic nerve on the back side as im permanently damaged. 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 a positive and they said yes you are. Time. You do. Nothing oh come on laugh and. Dont need me. 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 social worker to figure out how to get that medication soon to you and a list of. 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 cult of medication i could imagine theres a lot of age id be proud of the inmates there are not getting treatment. The old prison of new orleans has 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. But our idea of our condition hypertension leading to sort of a Kidney Disease you know maam have you have been exposed to. Any venereal a sexually transmitted disease and im around on a time on my. 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 call a per d. M. Meaning that we would receive a certain amount from the city which supplies our budgie with or the 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 to. Take care of all of our operations here under the old 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. Its all to see we have a great team we need to strengthen before the free world cold and youre back to been a legend to keep it so its at the back. 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