The Sheriff (by Lee Ann)
THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail".
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails.
Took away their weights.
Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a! lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic.
He said that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
What do you think? Do you think if all prisons were like this one, there might be less crime and/or repeat offenders? Do you think criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live with some of those luxuries until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves? By luxuries I am talking about cable tv and air conditioning. I just think about some people (who have not committed crime against someone else) that are hardworking and cannot afford some of these luxuries.
5 Comments:
I'd rather be shot than wear pink boxers in jail LOL - check out my post today. I think you'll like it.
Im freaking impressed by his management style. It really showed how fucked up some institutions are when it comes to dealing with convicts..... no wonder there will always be repeat offenders. Hahahaha...I think maybe I shld write an suggestion like to my own country's penal institution!
I'm only going to say that there are a lot of people in jail for minor crimes and a percentage of innocent people as well are jailed in the USA.
I would feel very sorry for them.
If any of these tactics worked it would probably be only on this group of the population.
He sounds like a hardcore military man.
I can only imagine there are a
lot of former military retirees in Arizona as well to keep him in office.
That's all you'll hear about politics from me for at least a year!
Everyone who commits a crime should pay for it and not go on jail vacation.
Period!
They should work for what they get and pai everything of, the court, the people working there, the heating, the light...
If they behave good they should get somthing to read, like some magazines how poorly people lie in Afrika.
The man is a fascist.
Popular like many, but still a fascist.
The inmates grow much of the food he charges them for and he is not meeting full nutritional requirements.
Humiliation of a group does not deserve emulation, it requires examination and popular botes do not equate to examination.
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