I'm sure a lot of you have heard of this guy whose County Sheriff for Maricopa county. They've done numerous news stories about him in the past.
Joe Arpaio is the Maricopa Arizona County Sheriff. He keeps getting elected over and over! Here's why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city" jail.
He has jail meals down to less than 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped cigarettes 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, but
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.
More on the Arizona Sheriff:
Arpaio has also instituted what he calls "Hard Knocks High," the only
accredited high school in an American jail.
That, along with an anti-drug program, says Arpaio, has resulted in a
high percentage of his inmates leaving jail without their addictions and
few of them returning.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116º 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 on their
bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138º 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 1½ years. "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 120º 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 fewer 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.
Joe Arpaio is the Maricopa Arizona County Sheriff. He keeps getting elected over and over! Here's why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city" jail.
He has jail meals down to less than 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped cigarettes 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, but
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.
More on the Arizona Sheriff:
Arpaio has also instituted what he calls "Hard Knocks High," the only
accredited high school in an American jail.
That, along with an anti-drug program, says Arpaio, has resulted in a
high percentage of his inmates leaving jail without their addictions and
few of them returning.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116º 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 on their
bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138º 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 1½ years. "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 120º 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 fewer 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.
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