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Sheriff Joe Arpaio: 38 Arizona inmates who defaced flag to eat only bread, water
CNN ^ | Jan 24, 2014 | Faith Karimi

Posted on 01/24/2014 6:29:17 AM PST by Innovative

A diet of bread and water is the punishment for dozens of Arizona inmates who allegedly defaced American flags placed in their jail cells.

The 38 male inmates are part of the Maricopa County jail system, which is under the control of controversial sheriff Joe Arpaio.

For their alleged unpatriotic acts, the sheriff said Thursday, they'll survive on bread and water for seven days.

"These inmates have destroyed the American flag that was placed in their cells," Arpaio said. "Tearing them, writing on them, stepping on them, throwing them in the toilet, trash or wherever they feel. It's a disgrace ... this is government property that they are destroying, and we will take action against those who act this way."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arpaio; inmates; patriotism; sheriffarpaio
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To: Mr. K

The flags in the cells are decals approx. 3X5 inches. They are not cloth, plastic, etc.

Out of the approx. 8900 prisoners in our jail system, only a very few have ever defaced the flags. And remember, we are constantly getting new prisoners every day.

Many of the prisoners are in fact somewhat patriotic.


21 posted on 01/24/2014 6:58:19 AM PST by Glennb51
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To: Glennb51

Just put the Flag on the ceiling and grease the floors & walls.


22 posted on 01/24/2014 7:02:33 AM PST by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: Progov

Milwaukee County’s Sherriff Clarke is another one.

That makes two!!!


23 posted on 01/24/2014 7:02:38 AM PST by SkiKnee
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To: Innovative

Only 7 days?

This crime deserves bread & water for the rest of their time spent.


24 posted on 01/24/2014 7:08:11 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: PATRIOT1876

Bread and water for the rest of their sentence? You do know that would kill them? A death sentence for trashing a flag is ridiculous.


25 posted on 01/24/2014 7:11:21 AM PST by Sporke
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To: Sporke

*Bread and water for the rest of their sentence? You do know that would kill them?*

They used to feed prisoners on bread and water in the old days and it didn’t kill them.


26 posted on 01/24/2014 7:17:08 AM PST by PATRIOT1876
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To: HiJinx; momto6; montag813; AZamericonnie

Sheriff Joe Ping


27 posted on 01/24/2014 7:17:45 AM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Mr. K

A rope? What would you do with a rope? you ever been to Maricopa county? Its very flat. You don’t need a rope to escape a one story building. Things are spread OUT, not up.


28 posted on 01/24/2014 7:23:32 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: sagar

Sounds like you’ve never hunted rattlers. You pump something noxious into their lairs. Something they hate, like gasoline. Then they come crawling out.

Sheriff Joe was just smoking out a few rattlers. Now that they are identified, they are on bread and water. The flag in the cell is about having them self-identify for further communication and intervention.


29 posted on 01/24/2014 7:28:24 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: Innovative

38 inmates were shot trying to escape!?


30 posted on 01/24/2014 7:41:36 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Innovative

38 inmates were shot trying to escape!?


31 posted on 01/24/2014 7:41:36 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: Innovative

He should out the whole prison population on bread and water for this act by a “few” ...let the population deal with the punishment of the few. If I was put on bread and water because of somebody else’s “act”...I’d find a way to keep that from happening again.


32 posted on 01/24/2014 8:01:52 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ("There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Glennb51
still, there is no reason for the expense of adding a flag to each room

Am I not getting my point across? These are not normal human beings, these are criminals.

What requirement is there for a flag in each room?

I am not anti-flag, or unpatriotic, I am just saying why give criminals an excuse or reason to do more stupid things?

It was unnecessary to their incarceration or “rehabilitation” It invites reaction, unnecessarily.

And I support Sheriff Joe 100%. I love it that he stuck them in tents and made them wear pink.

33 posted on 01/24/2014 8:13:56 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: sagar
IIRC (from reading about Sheriff Joe over several years), Sheriff Joe decided at one point it was too expensive for the taxpayer to allow the prisoners to sleep in the jail building, especially when U.S. troops were overseas with less.

So, he moved the prisoners outside to a tent city and they were only allowed in the jail building once a week to clean it.

Then he realized more taxpayer money could be saved by not allowing the prisoners coffee and cut hot meals to twice a day (or once?), with lunch being bread and bologna.

He tried to cut their cable, but apparently, Kongress had decided cable tv was a "right" and made it a law......so, the prisoners can watch two channels (something silly).

The prisoners' uniforms are pink; pink jumpsuits, pink socks, pink underwear.

And the prisoners do manual labor. Sheriff Joe's "rehabilitation program," isn't the Disney World version liberals fantasize for prison and my understanding, Sheriff Joe does it on the cheap. - The prisoners are not having a good time.

34 posted on 01/24/2014 8:14:47 AM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Sporke

“Bread and water for the rest of their sentence? You do know that would kill them? A death sentence for trashing a flag is ridiculous.”

So is your reading ability. “ridiculous” that is.


35 posted on 01/24/2014 8:25:04 AM PST by Rannug
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To: sagar
Am I the only one who thinks it is idiotic?

Nah. There are probably a half-dozen FReepers who think putting flags up in the jails is idiotic.

36 posted on 01/24/2014 8:31:31 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: oh8eleven
Gee, a piece from CNN that describes sheriff Arpaio as controversial. Who'd have guessed?

I'm pretty sure it's part of the CNN spell-checker software.

37 posted on 01/24/2014 8:32:25 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Sporke
Bread and water for the rest of their sentence? You do know that would kill them?

Huh? Are you aware it isn't ordinary bread?

38 posted on 01/24/2014 8:35:42 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Innovative

Joe says the water will come from his swamp cooler and it will be chewy.


39 posted on 01/24/2014 9:07:38 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: sagar
Am I the only one who thinks it is idiotic? Why spend money on “patriotic” stuff for the damn prisoners?

He is teaching them discipline and consequences.

40 posted on 01/24/2014 9:15:10 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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