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Sheriff on prisoners: What do you hear?

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So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.
 
So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.


Oh, my God. I don’t even believe it. Wow. The ACLU ought to be able to make a great deal of noise about this. Drink? Me, too. Just a bit too early here. ��
 
It does sound bad, but I can't find a video that provides more context to what he's saying. Everything cuts off at the same point.
 
It does sound bad, but I can't find a video that provides more context to what he's saying. Everything cuts off at the same point.

Somebody probablynshut it off because it was so damning.

How come you don’t use an avatar???

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So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.


Good job, Sheriff. You just admitted to using slave labor. *slow clap*
 
It does sound bad, but I can't find a video that provides more context to what he's saying. Everything cuts off at the same point.

I found the whole video. The quote from above starts around the 20 minute mark. It's about a prison reinvestment program. It's all pretty uneventful until the quote in the OP.

No, it doesn't sound any better. The context of what he's talking about is that some of the parish prisoners are released into work programs. And apparently that's a travesty because he needs his car washed.

 
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I found the whole video. The quote from above starts around the 20 minute mark. It's about a prison reinvestment program. It's all pretty uneventful until the quote in the OP.

No, it doesn't sound any better. The context of what he's talking about is that some of the parish prisoners are released into work programs. And apparently that's a travesty because he needs his car washed.



What an idiot. I was hoping it would end with him not pretending like it was a bad thing that good prisoners may be released. Instead he seems annoyed that he may have less good prisoners to work for the prison.
 
Noticed how he put the blacks right behind him, subtle he is not.

Look, this is Louisiana, my entire life this has been a broken down state and it was well known as a broken down state before I was born, and the situation is getting worse as they try to stay afloat with its major city in mortal danger because of weather related costs. On an inflation adjusted basis they are spending less than they did ten years ago even with nice increases these last two years, which does not work, made even worse by all those years that were even worse so needed investments were never made. Finding the money to keep the prisons running is not easy, so I have some compassion for this Sheriff, but the lack of justice is bad even by Lousisnaa standards

For those who want to get an idea how bad this Sheriff is:
https://medium.com/@Jwes115/corruption-in-caddo-parish-the-truth-revealed-363c5dff26cf

State spending:
http://house.louisiana.gov/housefiscal/DOCS_TENYEAR/Total Budget History Trends.pdf
 
Noticed how he put the blacks right behind him, subtle he is not.

Look, this is Louisiana, my entire life this has been a broken down state and it was well known as a broken down state before I was born, and the situation is getting worse as they try to stay afloat with its major city in mortal danger because of weather related costs. On an inflation adjusted basis they are spending less than they did ten years ago even with nice increases these last two years, which does not work, made even worse by all those years that were even worse so needed investments were never made. Finding the money to keep the prisons running is not easy, so I have some compassion for this Sheriff, but the lack of justice is bad even by Lousisnaa standards

For those who want to get an idea how bad this Sheriff is:
https://medium.com/@Jwes115/corruption-in-caddo-parish-the-truth-revealed-363c5dff26cf

State spending:
http://house.louisiana.gov/housefiscal/DOCS_TENYEAR/Total Budget History Trends.pdf

You just posted an article about this guy covering up for a child predator... and you still have compassion for him? I get his job is tough, but that is just evil.

Regards the OP, wanting to keep the prison open is very different from expecting the prisoners to wash your car.

A state in as dire of straights as Louisiana deserves a sheriff who isn't an abusive piece of ****.
 
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So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.


Every now and then we get people here presenting oddball theories about why America is the most incarcerated nation in the developed world, by a long shot. Here's one reason.
 
So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.


It's pretty depressing how they can have these fits of shockingly despicable honesty without being held responsible because their constituents refuse to do so.
 
You just posted an article about this guy covering up for a child predator... and you still have compassion for him? I get his job is tough, but that is just evil.

Regards the OP, wanting to keep the prison open is very different from expecting the prisoners to wash your car.

A state in as dire of straights as Louisiana deserves a sheriff who isn't an abusive piece of ****.

I have compassion for his problem of keeping the prison operating on not enough money, which is not his fault, that is all.

The subject of this thread is like 60th on the list of reasons this guy should not be a Sheriff I spect.

Sheriff Prator has also been observed lying about the number of inmates at Caddo Correctional Center, as they have been cramming detainees into the facility for years in an overpopulated environment. When a routine check was done on the facility to ensure it was meeting adequate safety and health standards, inmates were placed onto buses and driven around the block several times until the investigators were leaving; however, they screwed up after they brought back at least one bus while the investigators were still at the facility, raising suspicion as to the true quality of care that these inmates and detainees receive while in Sheriff Prator’s custody. Inmates have been crammed three to each cell, when conditions only allow for two inmates to be housed in each cell at this facility.

Sounds so very Louisiana!
 
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It's pretty depressing how they can have these fits of shockingly despicable honesty without being held responsible because their constituents refuse to do so.

I take it you have never been to Louisiana.

Things have always run differently there.
 
Every now and then we get people here presenting oddball theories about why America is the most incarcerated nation in the developed world, by a long shot. Here's one reason.



He's talking about slavery. "work release programs" where the inmate "earn" their way out by being made to work; "these are the ones we can work......we need 'em to work in our warsh our cars" to "save a little money"

Here's the problem with that. In Louisiana you got to prison for one joint. If and when he gets out he will be a mujch more seasoned "criminal" and harder to convict, and HE WILL commit crimes again because now he's a "felon" for life, cannot vote, hold office and has a real slim chance of landing a career making job.

It seems to me you are creating a poor working class to "save a little money"
 
So here's today's thing that left me ****ing speechless. It's 38 seconds long.



Does anyone else hear, "Goddamn it, they keep letting out my slaves!"

Because holy ****.

I need a drink.


He sounds like a goddamned plantation owner.

Reason #452,119 I could never live in the South.
 
I take it you have never been to Louisiana.

Things have always run differently there.

No, i never have, but i do not recognize any geographical reason to forsake the constitutional rights of Americans.
 
He's talking about slavery. "work release programs" where the inmate "earn" their way out by being made to work; "these are the ones we can work......we need 'em to work in our warsh our cars" to "save a little money"

Here's the problem with that. In Louisiana you got to prison for one joint. If and when he gets out he will be a mujch more seasoned "criminal" and harder to convict, and HE WILL commit crimes again because now he's a "felon" for life, cannot vote, hold office and has a real slim chance of landing a career making job.

It seems to me you are creating a poor working class to "save a little money"

No need for "Seems to me"....we know that it is has the highest incarceration rate IN THE WORLD and that it is Americans most violent state and that only two states have higher poverty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...cas-most-violent-and-peacefulstates/87658252/
 
For those interested the Sheriff yesterday put up a longish video on his problems keeping the "Jail" running financially.....which looks like a Prison to me.....for those who are willing to listen to his argument.

https://www.facebook.com/sheriffsteveprator/
 
He's talking about slavery. "work release programs" where the inmate "earn" their way out by being made to work; "these are the ones we can work......we need 'em to work in our warsh our cars" to "save a little money"

Here's the problem with that. In Louisiana you got to prison for one joint. If and when he gets out he will be a mujch more seasoned "criminal" and harder to convict, and HE WILL commit crimes again because now he's a "felon" for life, cannot vote, hold office and has a real slim chance of landing a career making job.

It seems to me you are creating a poor working class to "save a little money"

Repeat three times and you got an indenture for life. There's people doing life for pot- no guns,no violence, no kids involved, just pot.

I once worked with a guy who, when he first came to BC, was a guard at Oakalla (yes, that long ago!). He said they'd get young guys in for two-years-less-a-day who were nearly crying, they were so terrified. If you keep them for a week, he said, then let them go on probation, you'd never see them again. After a year and a half, though, you had to be careful they didn't knife you. Must be that times three in a place where prisons are an industry.
 
Repeat three times and you got an indenture for life. There's people doing life for pot- no guns,no violence, no kids involved, just pot.

I once worked with a guy who, when he first came to BC, was a guard at Oakalla (yes, that long ago!). He said they'd get young guys in for two-years-less-a-day who were nearly crying, they were so terrified. If you keep them for a week, he said, then let them go on probation, you'd never see them again. After a year and a half, though, you had to be careful they didn't knife you. Must be that times three in a place where prisons are an industry.



Interesting! It was through Okalla guards I learned about the swinging door effect. I met them through a riot shorlty after arriving in Vancouver. [Which made it a hat trick since I covered prison riots in Montreal and Regina]

It was a group of sheriffs who later tarted activism amid another problem, juveniles being paid to commit crimes because they knew there would never be jail time.

For a time we went the other way, in the 90's the right was enraged about breaks ins and street crime. It took three years for the truth to come out, that Canada's crime rate had halved and halved again, and Vancouver was far less crime ridden than Montreal, Toronto, Regina and Windsor.

It causes me to wonder how many lives have been ruined for a petty crime because of a public misconception; which makes the new age politics that much more terrifying.
 
It reminds me of Cool Hand Luke.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.
 
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