Posted on 06/30/2005 7:03:57 AM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
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 + 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's120 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.
Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Durbin needs to spend a week in there, and compare it with Gitmo!!
I remember when gitmo prisoners were complaining that they were being 'tortured' by the a/c being pumped into their cells.
There have been pieces on him here before.
Please?
Wonder what the recidi...ricida...the repeat rate of inmates is under his watch?
"compare it with Gitmo"
just what I was thinking! lol
Court mandated cable TV. Well ain't that special.
I don't get cable because I can't afford it and DSL, and the DSL won that choice.
Cool.
I've read it here on FR, but it was a year or so ago. Rush also commented on this at the time. Sadly, that stuff wouldn't fly up in Mass. It may here in Va though....
you were right the first time :)
I like Sheriff Joe.
Arpaio for President.
This is old stuff and the Sherrif is in constant legal limbo. But, he keeps winning and keeps getting re-elected. Not one inmate has died and he has the highest reform rate among criminals. Very few ever come back to his prison.
I love that guy.
Great story ! One of the very few things that the French do right is that when someone goes into prison they have no idea how long they are in for. That agony is unbearable and they have very few repeat prisoners. This sheriff is doing it exactly right; prisoners should be treated as such and not as some victim group with unlimited rights. I just fear that the ACLU will get to this sooner and later and when that happens, we Freepers must rise to his defense.
Too bad "Sheriff Joe" can't replace John McCain. Just imagine how the good sheriff would clean up things in the Senate! And Hillary would just looooove him, doncha' know?
Now why can't he be in charge of Gitmo...
How about Arpaio FOR JOHN MCCAIN'S SENATE SEAT????
I woud bet that it wasn't very high.
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