TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER 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' 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.
More on the Arizona Sheriff: 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 Wednesday 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!" Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury 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. If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it. Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona










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:-* :-* :-* LOVE IT! it's time we quit wasting tax dollars to coddle inmates!
replyi'll be glad the day all americans are in jail!!!
replyI say hell ya send him to jacksonville when they don't reelect him.... we sure could use him.
replyI am amazed but extremely pleased that someone hasn't managed to get him shut down. I totally agree with his philosophy and support him 100%. Go Joe!!
replyNow that is what I call a sheriff! This makes the crappy police officers where I live look like rats in an attic; every county, every parish, every state needs sheriffs and jails exactly like him. Thanks for posting this!
replyAs a former Dept of Corrections employee in Cali, This man is not wrong and I would vote for him, the inmates get better educations then I can afford for my kids! # meals aday (while children are starving on OURE streets! Kudos!!
reply:-) :-) :-) it seems to be working there.... :-D :-D :-D
replyIts funny he mentions Iraq. When my unit first showed up, the first week it got up to 138 outside the tent. Inside it was miserable. We got used to it, though. "If you don't like it, don't come back" hahaha. Awesome.
replyI just checked on that...and it's only a very minor exaggeration of the truth...the pink boxers, the cable, it's all true 8-|
replyFinally someone who gets it! I applaud his efforts and (if any) others like him ;-)
replythat man is a genius :-O ;-)
replyTreating people like @#$%^&*! merely makes them behave in the same way. Some punishment is warranted. So is some rehabilitation. And that's for the Sheriff too. Actually, it's not funny at all. The prisoners should all start singing 'I shot the Sheriff' and tell him it's their plan for the future. Who'd blame them if someone did???!!!
replywe could do with you in the uk too!!
replyThat is a good man. It reminds me of another sheriff that makes all inmates wear pink all the time, and use all pink linen. Prison is to be a punishment, not a luxury.
replywish there were more like him! ;-)
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