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 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 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 videotape
that he pipes into the jails.
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 Maricopa 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 = years. "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 damned 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.
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