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Posted on 04/21/2005 6:44:44 PM PDT by quidnunc
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 law.”
Armed guards lined the streets as nearly 700 maximum-security inmates marched the four blocks from Towers Jail to Lower Buckeye Jail. They wore only pink underwear and pink flip-flops. Slowly and meticulously, the inmates, linked together with handcuffs, were corralled into a caged portion of the west Phoenix jail.
In what Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio called one of the largest jail expansions in U.S. history, 2,630 inmates began moving from Madison Street Jail and Towers Jail into two new facilities — Fourth Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix and Lower Buckeye Jail in west Phoenix.
The move started Thursday night when juveniles and mentally ill inmates were relocated to Lower Buckeye Jail. On Friday, maximum-security inmates from Towers Jail also were moved to Lower Buckeye Jail and vehicles began transporting the rest of the inmates to the new downtown facility. The most dangerous inmates walked 570 feet through an underground tunnel connecting Madison Street Jail with the new Fourth Avenue Jail. Moves are expected to be finished by the weekend, Arpaio said.
"The Madison Jail was overcrowded and the infrastructure was a problem, so it’s being closed down," said sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Paul Chagolla.
Activists questioned the way the inmates were moved.
"I’m outraged about what he’s doing," said Michael Coyle, justice studies instructor on prison reform at Arizona State University, "and this is just another example of the typical show element of Sheriff Joe that we’ve gotten used to over the years."
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(Katie McDevitt in the East Valley Tribune [Mesa, AZ], April 16, 2004)
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Apparently they aren't so used to it if they are still outraged.
Pictures, pictures, we must have pictures of the losers in their pink panties!
pink panty pissant ping
Follow the links to both stories.
It is most probable that some of the prisoners were charged with a crime, and not yet given a trial, yet alone convicted. I don't know what FReepers thinks of Arpaio, but there are dozens of good reasons to distance oneself from this Sheriff.
There's a small pic in the link. It was more than enough for me...
There seems to be an assortment of pink hues! I wonder if they dyed the drawers themselves!
BTW: I think pink is a rather lovely color.
Looks like they're doing what the fratboys call an "elephant walk"
"Paging Medea Benjamin" LOL! Ya beat me to it, when I saw the title, Code Pink was my first thought.
Would have liked to have been standing on the sidewalk watching that perp parade!
pink panty pissant ping...
Say that 10 times fast!!!
The really really dangerous criminals were transferred thru a tunnel but these guys went thru the street in their lovely pink outfits.
Too bad he doesnt put as much effort into catching
illegal alien invaders, terrorists, illegal alien smugglers, and drug cartel members and mules.
imo
I don't know what they're complaining about. Do you realize how much this stuff cost me?
Most are NOT convicted; they're awaiting trial. And Arpaio is a self-promoting thug. He had a hero in his jail recently on trumped up charges of "detaining" illegals.
Also supported Butch for governor in the last election
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