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The Governor who had an iron spine by taking on the problems of the Big Dig without flinching, picks up this endorsement from the very popular and forceful ani-illegal immigration advocate Sherrif Joe Arpaio. Now, I wonder why Senator Lettuce, er.. McCain, didn't get this endorsement?

With precious little entertainment inside Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails, radio KJOE should be a big hit with the Sheriff’s 10,000 inmates when it makes its programming debut on Monday February 5, 2007, at twelve noon, from the basement studio in Fourth Avenue Jail. Sheriff Arpaio, along with the famous radio team of Tim and Willy from KNIX radio, will welcome inmates to the premiere show on KJOE radio – which Arpaio says will educate, inform and entertain the men and women incarcerated in the jails.“For years now, I’ve taken away most of their TV viewing, all movie rentals and...

PHOENIX — An Arizona sheriff known for his tough jail policies is offering basic English classes to inmates who don't speak the language. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the language barrier has caused problems for his jail officers and even prompted complaints from English-speaking prisoners. "They are in the United States, and they should start speaking English," said Arpaio, who is known for making inmates wear pink underwear and take part in old-style chain gangs in striped uniforms. Arpaio said the inmates are so eager to learn English that there's a waiting list for the two-week courses, which began...

Citizens group confronts sheriff on immigrants 'Copwatch' calls for sheriff to release immigrants from jail Friday, June 16, 2006 Members of a citizens group known as Copwatch protested outside Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office Friday morning. They held signs asking Arpaio to release illegal immigrants that his deputies and volunteer posse members have arrested. The arrests came under a state law making it illegal to conspire to smuggle humans into Arizona, or to conspire to be smuggled. Arpaio came down from his 19th floor office in the Wells Fargo Building to let the members of Copwatch present their complaints in person....

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants 11 more large tents to house an influx of illegal immigrants. Tent City One is outside the nearby Estrella Jail in southwest Phoenix. There are 2,000 inmates in the two tent facilities and about 10,000 inmates in all of the county's jails. In August, state legislators passed an anti-human smuggling statute giving prosecutors a tool to go after smugglers. County Attorney Andrew Thomas later issued an opinion saying illegal immigrants suspected of paying coyotes could be prosecuted as conspirators. "The law is clear and I intend to enforce it," Arpaio said. "But we're going...

2,000 inmates already are in two tent facilities PHOENIX - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants 11 more large tents to house an influx of illegal immigrants. --

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INDICTMENTS UPHELDTHOMAS’ INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES VALID In a nine-page legal opinion which analyzed Arizona and federal case law and statutes, Superior Court Judge Thomas O’Toole ruled that illegal immigrants who conspire with human smugglers (coyotes) to be transported into Arizona can be prosecuted for the criminal offense of conspiracy, a class 4 felony. In addition, Judge O’Toole dismissed defense attorneys’ claims that Arizona’s anti-smuggling statute could not be enforced because the federal government had preempted the field of immigration. The Courts’ extensive analysis specifically denied claims that the court did not have jurisdiction to consider the issues presented;...

Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the Howie Carr show...

GILA BEND, Ariz. – Four Mexican men sit in the dirt with their wrists bound, shoulders hunched and eyes lowered to avoid the glare of the rising sun. The immigrants had been on their way to build a dairy farm in this town about an hour southwest of Phoenix. But after a traffic stop for crossing the center line and a faulty brake light, members of a sheriff's task force targeting human and drug smugglers found they were not U.S. citizens. Now they were bound for federal custody. Beginning Wednesday, more illegal immigrants coming through Maricopa County could meet the...

Do you remember when Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin accused our troops at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of torturing terrorist prisoners by subjecting them to loud rock music and to extreme temperatures? He demanded that the base be closed and the prisoners sent elsewhere. He was joined by goofy Teddy Kennedy in his demands.Just several weeks ago, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Sen. Ben. Nelson (D-Neb) along with Republican senators Jim Bunning and Michael D. Crapo checked out the place. It turned out to be Club Gitmo. The prisoners are well treated and fed better than they would be at home.However,...

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...

Convicts were forced to march to a new top-security jail — wearing just pink underpants and flip-flops to deter escape bids. Prison bosses reckoned the 700 hardmen would be too embarrassed to go on the run in gay-style garb. Muscle-bound, tattooed thugs were linked with pink handcuffs for the two-mile hike. And when they reached the new clink in Phoenix, Arizona, one con had to cut a pink ribbon to open it. Tough Sheriff Joe Arpaio said: “I put them on the street so everybody could see them. They can see this is what happens to people who break the...

PHOENIX - Many police officials along the U.S.-Mexican border say they are fed up with the number of illegal aliens populating American prisons, many of them incarcerated for violent crimes such as murder, rape and robbery.Almost one in six inmates in Arizona, for example, is a Mexican citizen."It is a phenomenon that law enforcement recognizes as a major problem," said one undercover detective, who specializes in street gangs and goes by the name "Paco.""We have to put drug users and violaters in there, babysit them, and now we have to babysit illegal aliens," said Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio,...

A British stockbroker in jail in the United States has been lifting the lid on a controversial prison regime through a compelling weblog. He forces inmates to wear pink underpants, puts women on chain gangs and brags that it costs more to feed the guard dogs than the prisoners he oversees. No surprise then that sheriff Joe Arpaio is often called America's "toughest sheriff". But while his hardline tactics have won him plenty of admirers among the voting public of Maricopa county, Arizona, they have outraged human rights campaigners. Now, as sheriff Arpaio seeks re-election to his job, few would...

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>