TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE COUNTY SHERIFF
(ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING 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 million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them
He banned smoking and porno 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.
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), 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 pink boxer shorts were 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."
Wednesday 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 too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear
and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned
mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons
were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the
current position of running out of prison spaces.
If you agree, pass this on. If
not, just delete it.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona