Good for JOE
 

For those not familiar with Joe Arpio, he is the County Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. He keeps getting re-elected over and over again.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.Inmates sleep in tents!

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says: "They're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."


He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money. Men work in Pink "Clean and Sober" Shirts. Their underwear is also Pink!


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 allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel, he replied: "So these morons will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history 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 that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd 2009), the Associated Press reported: 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.


On the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees."This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."

The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents there too, and they have to walk all day in that sun, wearing full battle gear and getting shot at, and THEY have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected for the fourteenth time as Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Now this the way prisons should be run.

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From Wiki:

Joseph M. "Joe" Arpaio (born June 14, 1932) is the elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. First voted into office in 1992, Arpaio is responsible for law enforcement in Maricopa County. Since 2005, he has taken an outspoken stance against illegal immigration, and has become a flashpoint for controversy surrounding Arizona's SB1070 anti-illegal immigration act. He is well known for publicity seeking, and styles himself as "America's Toughest Sheriff." He is being sued by the U.S. Department of Justice and in a separate class-action matter for racial profiling. Arpaio is also known for his investigation of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, and his claim that it is forged.

The guy is barking.

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As long as the prisoners get a hard life i dont care..

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Do you think people should be imprisoned for being Mexican in the wrong place?

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You mean illegal entry into a country ? then yes regardless of nationality .

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Maybe the Spanish police should do that to the Brits who havent bothered to register themselves as legally resident in Spain

:D All of a sudden you'd seen 100,000s of Brits in pink underwear huddled in tents. Like Butlins

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Heh!

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I'd buy tickets to see that!:rofl:

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:thumbsup:

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And all the people who illegally employ them as cheap labour, naturally!? :nod: There aren't enough prisons in the US to cope!

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I'd expect all mod cons, an excellent choice of food incl turkey Xmas lunch as well as Sky TV and Sports fascilities just as in UK prisons and I'd definitely object to pink underwear or living in a tent.

Definitely a case for the EU Court of Human Rights,...

....or maybe they don't apply in Spain ? :unsure:

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CDS during UK summer holidays
:rofl: