American Sheriff | Fault Lines
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- In large parts of the US, sheriffs are the only form of law enforcement and do everything from running the jails to patrolling the streets.
Sheriffs and their deputies account for one-quarter of all sworn law enforcement officers in the US.
But unlike police or the FBI who have clear oversight and a chain of command holding them accountable, sheriffs are elected in often highly partisan elections.
Many sheriffs don't have term limits and once they are elected, there are very few checks on their power. They can only be removed when the public votes against them.
"They have this huge amount of autonomy, huge amount of independence, huge amount of authority. They make decisions that really dramatically affect people's lives, including life and death questions. That always breeds problems when you have a lot of authority and not a lot of accountability," says Mirya Holman, professor of political science at Tulane University.
Sheriff Thomas Hodgson is the longest serving sheriff in Massachusetts and is known for his tough-on-crime approach. But in recent years he has made news for the high suicide rate in his jails.
"Jail should never be a country club. And anyone who has spent time at our facilities will tell you that they are the furthest thing from a country club. And we know our approach is working," says Hodgson.
Fault Lines travelled to two very different places, Bristol County, Massachusetts and New Iberia Louisiana, to investigate what can happen when the power of a sheriff goes unchecked.
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I feel so bad for Curtis. He’s really hurting. But the thing that bothers me is the fact that his story parallels with the story of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer in 1963. She was in Mississippi, but it proves that the violent nature within the American Injustice System and it’s never been stopped!
We know exactly why now.
There's no justice the system. It's set up to profit off of you & I. It's us against them & they'll win eeverytime. 😐😐🤨🤨🙁☹
Oh my god....that system is so criminal. Unbelievable!!!!!
The whole judicial system is broken. If you have money and know the right people you can get away with anything....
Why do we still have Sheriff’s? WTF year is this?! Is this the best way we can think of to administer justice and uphold the law? Little mini-monarchs. Really?
You are 💯 percent absolutely right!!!
Stats actually show that the more a facility is like a "country club" (humane) the better. I think Iceland and Norway have some of the lowest recidivism rates and their prison is like home. I don't know what else will get our govt. to realize they're not doing the whole "criminal justice" thing right.
They don't want to get it right.
That's actually true.
The thing with the USA is that prisons are owned by companies. Companies work to maximize money.
It works, I am a very good example of that. I feel sorry for Americans, the people in leading positions think about profit over people.
I think it’s pretty obvious who should really be in jail
Truth!
I was arrested in Indiana in 2008 and my experiences in jail echo that of the people in this documentary. The united states has a serious problem with its for-profit correctional system.
Don't...... get....... arrested....... then
M Sharks , I am sorry that this was your experience, this country is plagued with a history of atrocities.
@@christinagomez5079 what's your prison experience?
@@andwhoareyou2892 You are a real pos.
@@andwhoareyou2892 What a out the people that get arrested being innocent?
What about other countries like Norway, Germany, Sweden?
Are they doing worse or better? How would you measure success?
I'd say reoffending rates, integration into society (so they don't cost but instead pay taxes, work, etc) and checking how wardens, prisoners PPS and the population in combination (just favor everyone in) see it.
Abuses doesn't only define physically,it's also included mentally states of an individuals
The best way to learn about a country is to look at how they treat their prisoners.
When I was in Pinellas County jail in florida for trying to get my insulin and meds. back from people that took it !
I was saying I was going to sue them, then one officer twisted my leg till it pop, then I was put into suicide
watch so I couldn't talk to anybody! Look up how many people died there and what being done to stop the Murders !
They're all in it together. Evil and Vile sorry excuses for human beings.
What they did to you was institutionalized evil! They must be destroyed!
@@shawnreid6123 Truth!
The way Curtis told the story, the way his injuries were... I can feel the pain all the way from Connecticut! It sounded very prejudice and full of hatred!
That's exactly what it is hatred and FEAR.
Keep getting on with your life Curtis, you and your mother {brave mother} have suffered enough, I hope these many offenses put him in his own jail but I doubt it, so don't allow him to hurt you and your mother anymore, the whole world is not like this, your voice has been heard even all the way to England where I watched this documentary tonight.
You and your mother really impressed me, many people would have just cracked under not just the attack but the memory of that inhuman treatment,
I don't know many men who would have got through it and come out of it like you, Im no push over and I dont think #I would have. Have a great life and put this as far behind you as you both can. He WILL be punished and you know it
Don't call 911 ,call the FBI.
I would hate to think of the number of deaths that sheriff has on his hands. He likes to think he's a man by abusing the vulnerable and weak. He's a real dirt bag. The type of man that the police love to have in their ranks.
People it's called a power trip , this sheriff probably treats his family same way , it's ok cause some day hopefully soon , he will ancer to a being that is so high , this sheriff might not even be able to climb that far up ????? Have faith
For all those "Law & Order trolls on this comment thread, Sheriff Louis M. Ackal of New Iberia, louisiana was voted out of office in 2019. You may try to deny his profound human rights and civil rights abuses, but there is no denying that he is gone!
🙏 thank God 🙏
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Mr. Curtis' story had me shaken up. Jesus Christ!
Some of these sherrifs are sadistic psychopaths ! Thankfully there are lawyers prepared to fight for their rights, but the way prisoners are treated shouldn't be happening in the first place. It's utterly wrong!
This sheriff is in a lot of danger, criminals do not benefit from aggressive rules, in fact that’s why they become criminals, they will react as criminals when aggressive rules are enforced
If i see our prisons and incarceration rate, i can tell that your system has failed and is bad.
Fact!
Inmates who are severely disabled mentally and physically are housed in solitary confinement for YEARS at the Anamosa State Penitentiary in Anamosa, Iowa. This is due to Warden William Sperfslage.
That's pure cruelty. These people need a free way to get healthcare like everyone else
@@BlueFlash215 - In 1999, the Anamosa State Penitentiary added a $3 surcharge to any visit to the infirmary. Blood pressure check, aspirin, doctor visit - and everything else, costs each inmate $3. The highest-paid inmate in the kitchen made $2.77 per day in 1999. It cost them more than a day's worth of pay for any medical treatment. The Iowa Department of Corrections is the most profitable branch of our state government.
FYI ICE won't sign contracts with him anymore after his deputies sent a migrant to the hospital. He also regularly calls political offices to report people giving out pamphlets about our rights when stopped by ICE.
Conservatives relish seeing people who "deserve it" suffer. My favorite way to make this point is when it comes to mass shootings.... Conservatives would much rather see a mass shooter taken down in a hail of gun fire than to see a person with mental illness get treatment and never become a mass shooter and maybe even succeed in society.
Want to see a conservative really go nuts? Point out how its cheaper to target people who likely might lean towards criminal behavior and offer them job training and life coaching rather than have them end up in prison. They will lose their f'ing minds over shiat like that. Even when there is data showing how much better that approach is for a society. It’s a sickness really. This obsession with punishment. Every act of compassion toward someone who has committed a crime, who has issues is seen as weakness. And the cycle repeats constantly.
J Phillz neoliberalism has solidified American perception of meritocracy and therein a love of punishing those who "fail."
Conservatives HATE science. You have two kind of people in jail: People with a mental illness or brain defect. And people with a bad past. You don't solve either of them with punishment. In Norway they understand this. They don't follow their faithfull feeling and emotion by thinking punishment helps. They follow clear science which demonstrates facts. That's why Norway has the lowest return rate to jail. And the most succesfull returns.
J Phillz We want people to get help but there's not enough for that.
You are wrong. It's not conservatives. This is the corruption of the department!
@@HermanWillems that's how it is in most of scandinavia .. it's a homogenized country so wealthy people can't point to minorities and blame them for the problems .. it forces them to address issues based on merit and not based on the color of people's skin
Things haven't changed as much since Cool Hand Luke, as people would like to think.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
That movie was disturbing to watch... and it is a fair representation of sadistic police culture.
...or Brubaker
I feel so bad for Ozenne.
Charges them 5 dollars a day to be in jail wtf?
@Nomo u just dont do that theres a lot of reasons
There are no reasons when you arrest somebody and force them to be incarcerated you can't charge them only thing that sheriff would get out of me if I spent two years in there would be the bird and its said "if I had to spend a couple years in there being treated like they're being treated I do a favor for everybody and I'd make sure to take that man out"
Ackal should have been FIRED. Why isn''t he fired!
Because it's the south and because he's white!
@@rivierarocket Massachusetts is not in the south.
Only 12 minutes in and this is just sickening... there was new policy passed in congress today but I’m not sure what’s in it. Hopefully something that really helps.
This goes on in every jail. Southwoods New Jersey, Southern State just to name a few.
You are 100% right. I was there from 2003-2009. 62R-52L. Southern state is even worse.
Truth!
Man this has been going on for over a hundred years
Sheriff are the worsted and the police department is right behind them
He owns stock in that system
It’s like any other businesses. They have great employees and they have bad employees. Iberia Parish police force do have a lot of great cops. But they also have some bad seeds to that need to be brought to justice just like any other criminal out here. We have a great little town here. It does have a lot of cleaning up to do. But not that way. Our town has more violence than ever before. I’ve been hearing gun shots a lot. That used to never occur. Well since they brought the city police back in, the gun shots kind of went down a good bit. I’m almost sure that all the citizens here would say we have a great little town. But like I said. They do have some cleaning up to do. But there is the right way to go about cleaning it up though. God bless all our people.
The first sheriff did a good job, the second one was really bad.
The first sheriff who has the highest suicide rates and human rights violation "did a good job"????
Wow.
That Sheriff... I mean he straight up LOOKS evil. Whats wrong with people?!
America is worst place to live in justice when it comes certain people ⚖
Power corrupts, total powers corrupts totally. 👹💩💩💩💩
I'm from mass and did time in Suffolk county. They are telling the truth. U won't get anything unless the nurse is a good person which is rare. U will suffer in prison. More should be done
Incarceration Shouldn't be lucrative
Starve them into compliance
Bet he wouldn’t try that in the California prison system!
Bless Kurtis and his baby girl.
You see and heard all thise that's wath the wanted to do with black man ,walking on the street in there home,jogging shopping,in cars in there garage cops are doing thise to Them some cops are sadistic,racist, some Times even White members of the public are beat-op and killed tazed because a cop tell Lies!!!!!
I'm from Canada and I'm going to tell you guys something that you probably will think that is impossible but this very thing happened up here in New Brunswick in a place called kingsclair and I was the victim that this happened too we were strip searched fingers prodded going up our anuses pushed around slapped around they used to like to throw us up against the wall so hard that they knew that our heads would hit the concrete we would be throwing in segregation for 5 days at a time taken out for a half hour just so that they could mess with us and look for a reason to stick us in for another 5 days I spent up to 25 days in segregation and a 6x5 cell inmates were threatened with physical abuse daily and sometimes sexual abuse and this was all within a small town in New Brunswick Canada
I am so sorru 4u, but it was not a youth detention center closed at 1990? ???
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Stay out of jail and you won’t have to worry about any of this
It actually irritates me when people complain about "Basic Commodities" being denied to people in jail, they are in jail because they deserve punishment. And none of the nonsense like "It is a juvenile or a minor" if it was a premeditated murder they deserve to go to a regular prison.
The strict sheriff thing sounds good on paper to ignorant voters. But what they forget is these people are getting out. They’ll be back on the streets. They forget about that part.
Cops like him has that GOD mentality! You see all the time.
if they were prisons id care less but they're jails, innocent until proven guilty, right?
Even in prison it's not the right way...
Is there a law that says that any inmate can only be put in solitary confinement for only a certain amount of time?
I bet that sheriff couldn’t walk the wing alone with even one prisoner 😂 camera shown clearly he had his buddies close and inmates on lockdown walking through with a smile
Many people are complaining about fake information about the person. Just like those matters that happened on the streets with brutal treatment.
WOW, cannot see how out their he really is, sad very very sad!!!
I SAW A DOCO ON PRISON GAURDS IN THIS AREA.AND THE MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONGST THE GAURDS IS THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY ......SHERIFFS HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO.THEY SHOULD HAVE A 4YR TERM ,8 AT THE MOST,BECAUSE THEN THERE GOD TO EVERYONE. SAD STORY BUT WE CAN FIX IT IF THERES MORE STORIES LIKE THIS
I can't write anything ,just say please stop treat like that and beat like that ,please stop ...
People awaiting trial being tortured, only in some jails. They refuse medication, and the
It’s all about the money
Revolution.
Are Sheriff roessler here in Muskegon County embezzled millions of dollars. Never seen the inside of a jail cell. Are county is corrupt. I did the time before I even got sentenced for the crime. That I didn't even commit. They ruined my life.
And they always do have it so planned out so good those pigs are family and we are the other side that's exactly how they think and have always thought
How does the Qatar government know so much about what goes on in the prison system here. While I love their reports, I have never heard of an outside news paper that is so accurate on what goes on in the prison system here in America. I like their investigative reports.
Dehumanizing
And in America amoung the few worthy of trust.....Al Jazeera......WHAT IRONY
Who is in charge here ?Will it ever end ?Ever ?
I live on the opposite end of the globe and i can tell you Al Jazeera is also propaganda media just like your own news media.
That first sheriff is a pos.
You know about a country club
Invisible lines
Happens everywhere to more or lesser extent. Florida is pretty bad and new York is the same
O M G. SHERIFFS. NO. POLICE. CHECKS. WOW. 2021.
Wow you're Fkt if you're innocent. I thought it was the prison's job to punish and only after you're convicted.
Can you do reports on where they actually clean up a bad system? Did they ever get this sheriff out of office?
Excuse my constant comments. I get so hot when I hear stuff like this.
You are entirely right to get angry about these things! God bless!
They become gods
Will Al Jazeera English investigate about slavery an Human Rights as for foreign workers in Qatar????
No, probably not. That's not anti American
@@I_am_a_cat_ Don't forget that it was Al Gore who sold his network, Current TV, to Al Jazeera. If you don't like Al Jazeera and their reporting, blame America.
America should be proud
Every country has horrible prisons. In other countries prisons you have to pay for food and water. In other countries the prisoners control inside the prison, they have guns! If you were in prison in any other country, you'd be praying to get transferred to the US.
Amen
No words😞😕😭
No meds no doctors but the charge you money for it
Well a prisoner should be able to have a better life than someone that they Rapedt or murdered.
Tough sh*it
Until you find you or your loved ones on the end of the tether of one. You can't always be there to rescue your loved ones. Be careful as to what you harden your heart over.
I think he shoukd mabage all jails
(1:40 in jail should never be a country club ) no it shouldn’t and it’s not but the punishment shouldn’t be treated like a animal that’s messing up there brain, it should be you can stay In a cell if you don’t wanna participate in classes. If you wanna leave the cell and participate come on out we will treat you like a person and your punishment is you not being able to see you family.
Truth!
If you don't believe there are racial undertones in basically every facet of society, at least the U.S. society, just all a racist. You must have just been born yesterday I'd you're ignorant of that fact. Even if it's just a small percentage in some areas, it still exists.
These are prisoners who gives tgem rights
well done sheriff.......................work them to death make them pay !
This Sheriff is a power hungry Sociopath...
ive read _(online so how truthful the info was meh)_ that the Sheriff is the only constitutionally recognized body of law? this must give them a lot more power/clout than other types of law enforcment but...as i'm canadian im not partial to the ins and outs of the U.S constitution
What a mr JOHNSON🤔
And this is why a lot of people do not trust or believe in these individuals Sheriff blood that party against them man called I don't know there might be some issues because these men have issues with who he was getting services from some people might say hey that's the sheriff's believe he believes these things who are we to judge him when you use your work place to help your agenda for your beliefs container position and you have that kind of power yes there's something wrong there
25:14 😭😭😭
Humiliated
Making money the weird way. I don’t believe in him. This man needs to be put in a cell. Is he really as bad as the video? This place seems dark. This seems like torture. I think that people want this for me. Because of fear. Or irrelevance. Or I feel bad for the man with the bipolar disorder because I can see his sadness by looking at his face. Help these people.
Why would anyone feel good about treating people like this? Sixk
I am a drama Queen
bootlickers downvoting this video
what?
Jonas Pell Care to elaborate? Perhaps make an argument regarding what you feel the AJ report gets wrong?
Look at his face he don't give a f***
Before I can tell how I feel about these people, I need to know what they were convicted for. Otherwise, this bullshit is just one-sided.
@George Orwell Rob, cheat and steal from good people and one is truly guilty, one is giving up their own "basic human rights".
@George Orwell and so are you if you don't consider anyone else's perspective on life
@George Orwell I'm a fan of your books! Stop being triggered by the opinion of someone you don't know, George! It's disappointing 😥
@@maximasromulus6316 "No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering."
@@skizmic I never cry for the suffering.skizmic Finally I thought you would never write me a verse. It is lovely, thank you.
What is the song at 6:25?
MrReedTea no clue
Darude - Sandstorm.
Sounds tipical!
Psalms 23;27;91;1-150
God Bless you Righteous Warrior.
Evil
A master in slavery time now in a jail because now the' inmates are send there by a judge because they did Something wrong. Or bad ,and thise Master is in pomp
F.T.P
There should be no comforts when u go to jail...u want comforts don't go to jail
No one expects comforts just respect humane treatment.
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