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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. He created the “Tent City Jail” that has been featured on TV several times, and drawn the wrath of the ACLU. He has jail meals, mainly bologna sandwiches, down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He deleted coffee, as it has no 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 prohibited smoking and porno magazines in the jail, took away their weights, and cut off all but “G” movies.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails so he hooked the cable TV back up, but fixed so that it could let in only the Disney and Weather channels. When asked why the weather channel, he replied “so they’ll know how hot it’s going to be tomorrow.” 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 Democrat lectures might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures even hotter than usual in Phoenix this summer (a new record of 116 degrees), the Associated Press reported that about 2,000 inmates living in the barbed wire compound at the Maricopa County jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. 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 one year. “It’s inhumane.” Joe Arpaio, is not one bit sympathetic. He said on TV 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!”
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. When several liberal groups, principally the ACLU, complained about Bringing Back Jim Crow (the great majority of the prisoners are minorities) and sued Arpaio, he explained that the prisoners volunteered for the chain gangs as they wanted to work outside as an alternative to the boredom and extreme heat they suffered from languishing in their tents, but he didn't have enough deputies in his department to guard a large number outside the jail. The prisoners are shackled with padded leg irons and none has had even a sore leg, and two guards suffice for the whole gang. The courts sided with him, and rejected the suit. The ACLU etc. then sued on the basis of "sex discrimination," so he started chain gangs for women.
To his liberal critics, Joe Arpaio points out that he rarely sees the same inmates twice, as the repeat offence rate is way low. "They really don't want to come back here, and I don't want to see them." 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 on the taxpayer’s expense, enjoying things that many honest citizens can’t afford, until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime.
UPDATE: The above was from some two years ago. Now a new development. Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay. The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who’d like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them win awards in dog shows. The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals. I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later.
Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote. Now he’s in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn’t doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought four new buses just for hauling illegals back to the border. He’s my kind of a “Git-R Dun” kind of Sheriff.
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. He created the “Tent City Jail” that has been featured on TV several times, and drawn the wrath of the ACLU. He has jail meals, mainly bologna sandwiches, down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He deleted coffee, as it has no 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 prohibited smoking and porno magazines in the jail, took away their weights, and cut off all but “G” movies.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails so he hooked the cable TV back up, but fixed so that it could let in only the Disney and Weather channels. When asked why the weather channel, he replied “so they’ll know how hot it’s going to be tomorrow.” 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 Democrat lectures might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
With temperatures even hotter than usual in Phoenix this summer (a new record of 116 degrees), the Associated Press reported that about 2,000 inmates living in the barbed wire compound at the Maricopa County jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. 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 one year. “It’s inhumane.” Joe Arpaio, is not one bit sympathetic. He said on TV 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!”
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. When several liberal groups, principally the ACLU, complained about Bringing Back Jim Crow (the great majority of the prisoners are minorities) and sued Arpaio, he explained that the prisoners volunteered for the chain gangs as they wanted to work outside as an alternative to the boredom and extreme heat they suffered from languishing in their tents, but he didn't have enough deputies in his department to guard a large number outside the jail. The prisoners are shackled with padded leg irons and none has had even a sore leg, and two guards suffice for the whole gang. The courts sided with him, and rejected the suit. The ACLU etc. then sued on the basis of "sex discrimination," so he started chain gangs for women.
To his liberal critics, Joe Arpaio points out that he rarely sees the same inmates twice, as the repeat offence rate is way low. "They really don't want to come back here, and I don't want to see them." 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 on the taxpayer’s expense, enjoying things that many honest citizens can’t afford, until it’s time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime.
UPDATE: The above was from some two years ago. Now a new development. Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay. The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who’d like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them win awards in dog shows. The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals. I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later.
Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote. Now he’s in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn’t doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought four new buses just for hauling illegals back to the border. He’s my kind of a “Git-R Dun” kind of Sheriff.
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