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Just the courthouse. Theres some people to save leaders from saying man your parish. A. 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. The louisiana 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 of 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 forced parish one hundred thousand residents in cajun country. This morning the sheriffs asking about. 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 arrest arrests. And so person comes here and the booking officer takes over that points stand to start booking anyone this morning. Does get a minute. Ok. Stefan forming question back on this want to go. Down is up the. First interview in the last ill visit lasted for two hours and in that time twelve people but in kosovo i took every cell is occupied it take out one cover. 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 around town. Its in the catwalk or corridor in the old analogy only where the correctional officer has an accident since it was in more than 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 louisiana is that we are a separate constitutional unit of local government we are a ton of most from the state and we were 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 i mean 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 to force. Alan evans expertise in arresting multiple people. That could be. Up to twenty years of patrol duty and was she to parish 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 a go 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 all the rest of parceling must say oh boy give 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 before taking a. Kid allan sets a personal arrest record the Council Housing area where rent is low. For these folks down here they will. They wont tell till you point a wave at you because somebody so you can do it they go think that. Theyre what they call a snitch. Talked to him and people out. Of 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 disturbances. People. Years with drug related they are going over that. The suspects and then taken to which its a prison. And. 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 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 are set up here you know its all a whole who likes it about fifty and one. And they do have a. Race and then put back to the south they dont go anywhere i mean they are theyre 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 forward. 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 privity war. They have war 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 will we dont have to search for many more all saturdays and sundays and its Cost Effective not to reveal now 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 i said 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 there are actually paying us to put them back and. If they if they occur if they re a real failure in. These town halls we should have used the problems here of just a bad year so we did the remodel took all the walls out so you just got one clear look there im going to pay. At the sheriffs maintains a relationship with every prisoner. No more you did back or no power for us our family is a family not. A twenty eight then. Numeric twenty years have been locked up twenty. Three to get home its ok. Its the cradle of jazz. The america is the america we. Knows this jazz feel. The city of climatic testify is alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least swell members the mob friends close most murders of street racing in the peace of the night this is new orleans the supplements the best place in the world. The warhawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they dont. Produce offspring to tell you that the because of the public by files of the most Important News today. Off the bat has been telling you are not cool enough and lets fight their product. All the hawks that we along with our audience will watch. 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 swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the Opening Times so it was it it was just from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i cant boards and sold in the side this warehouse thats where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet because they concern fraud. Some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets they kept inside the Geneva Freeport position that 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. Heres what people have been saying about redacted the night there was a full on author of the bill the show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packed a punch. Yeah its the john oliver of our three americas do the same we are apparently better than booth at that and see people you never heard of love right back to the night was president of the world bank a bundle of rubbish seriously send us an email. 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. You can to the sheriff doesnt want to lose out on this lucrative business. It. Deserves a chance yeah nasa let you be sure you know stay down there forever wishing 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 the shooting 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 what sam radio you know they dont get no respect. Is 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 History so yes you were shooting a new video. That you got shot of mccarthy. I was picked up. Once and then theyd 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 none. Came in the door all you see with. My lawyer. Didnt mention anything about ted to distinctive features she said no so or so youre lego or mark pointed out in the pits and. He said that he didnt see anything as she was like we had ever made her from us yeah 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 rights rap songs. Songs about life for louisiana prisoners. Bring. It conditionally were. Sours dollar me for too much 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 as a chain. Local Law Enforcement is ridiculous. 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 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 stuff that people had in the middle sixtys to stop africanamerican kids from their mistreated 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. They are 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 slaves 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 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. Didnt want to spend the money oh. Oh not their jobs or because i was only inmate those want to go to the hospital. They feel like i would never report. 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 turn to push my face. As i reminded her was about to pop out of sockets really piece of the optic nerve on the back side and permanent damage to. I was in the hospital and they tell me that i was a job the positive. Told him they must have somebody elses records confused with. Because im not positive and they said yes you are. You are. Yeah. You need to talk about everything you know there is no. One left 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 were going to figure out how to get that medication soon to you you know blister pack and 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 aids id be proud of inmates there are not getting treatment. The old prison of new orleans is finally in the past it was one of the wust in the united states. The new prisoner looks like an office building. Even inside its very different. Than our ideas on a heart condition hypertension need 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 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 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. 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 see in the time. When you go into yes thats. I mean does it just punished or did you get the pilots. License is not his position. Only one day to go before the ninth birthday because i just think about that in nine years and went from absolutely unknown piece of software to world shaking wall street transforming society busting. In court saying. I had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. I never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. Im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. Well you love to be able to. Cut the boy you like going to school you know to simulate it to still give a speech but. 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