03/04/2007

The Sheriff of Arizona




What do YOU think of this?

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY    SHERIFF( ARIZONA ) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from  spending  tens of million of dollars on another
expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for    them.

He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and  took away their weightlifting  equipment and cut off all but "G" movies.

He says:  "they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can  assault innocent people when they leave."

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city  projects and save taxpayer's money.
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 but  only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons will know  how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore  a waste of taxpayer money. When the
inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't  like it, don't come back."

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history 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 that actually tells the truth for a change world be welcome and that  it might even explain why 95% 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 for June 2nd), 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 pink boxer shorts were chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.

  "This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales,  an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's
inhumane."

  Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches,  is not one bit sympathetic.

  "Criminals should be punished for their crimes not live in luxury until it's  time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back  in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."


  Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all  day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not  committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"


If all prisons were like this there would be a lot less  crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison  spaces.  DO YOU AGREE?



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