Saturday, September 24, 2005

This article was emailed to me, we definitely need more of these people in our justice system.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIOHE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFFAND 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 forthem.He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away theirweights. Cut off all but "G" movies.He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county andcity projects.Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued fordiscrimination.He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court orderthat required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV againonly let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hotit'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 intothe jails.When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, hereplied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of theinmates were in his jails in the first place.More on the Arizona Sheriff:With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degreesjust set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at theMaricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to theirgovernment-issued pink boxer shorts.On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up ontheir bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degreesinside the week before.Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on theirchests and dripped down to their pink socks."It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate whohaslived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long agostarted making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, isnot one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of theinmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tentstoo, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit anycrimes, so shut your damned mouths!"Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there wouldbe a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should bepunished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for theirparole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back into live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford tohave for themselves.Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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