All Jails Should Be This Way

[chevy]

This was sent to me & I thought that you all might get a kick out of this :biggrin:


TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, 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. He 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 but 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 video tape 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 Maricop a 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 year. "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's 120 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 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 re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona .

[patches-4]

I have read this before and I think it is great. More places should do this. This is the latest thing he has done.

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN
Tough Love but it seems to get the job done.
Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray
animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department
over, and the County Supervisors said okay. The animal shelters are now all
staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays.
Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has
prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give
great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally
taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and
had them place in dog shows. The best part? His budget for the entire
department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from
a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on
all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day we
got him. Cost us $78.
The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most
would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his
budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners
out of the fees collected for adopted animals. I have long wondered when
the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail
system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the
county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow
most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and
harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides
meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where
prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the
Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the
Prison.
Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote. Now he's in trouble
with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural,
that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call
and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically
for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new
buses just for hauling folks back to the
border. He's kind of a "Git-R Dun" kind of Sheriff.

[Brian K Beckett]

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on video tape 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.






I would make em watch Dr.Phill. I guarentee if you were forced to watch that crap you wouldent come back.

[Chuck]

Maricopa AZ. County is Phoenix, AZ. This county has risen from 20th to 10th most dangerous place to live in the country with 300 men and women arrested each day.

Not that I don't appreciate his efforts, it's just that people will commit crimes and make every effort to get away with it regardless of the consequences.

[mark]

..............oh how I love this sheriff.

Every state in the U.S needs to have one of these prisons.

Chuck is right. They will do the crimes & try to get away with it.

I see it as.......if you are willing to do the crime, don't start crying if you get caught.

If they do the crime, they should do the time......and wear the pink too............see ya mark