re: BR visitor films cops; beaten & arrested *updated w/ video

I spent a night in Parish prison and that's when I completely lost respect for all the BR cops. They all acted like a bunch of uneducated backwoods hicks, and treated us all like we were mass murderers or child molesters -- cursing at us and degrading us. We had about 15 of us in one large holding cell and we were all trying to sleep -- every once in a while one of the cops would come with his billy club and loudly rap it on the bars to purposely wake us up. Another guy obviously had a bad back and the prison nurse had given him a mattress to sleep on. One of the cops noticed it and went into the cell and pulled it out and made him sleep on the concrete floor. Total dicks who went out of their way to abuse authority.