painterjoe Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 Update on Joe Arpaio 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. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on c ou nty 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 with only 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's lecture series on 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 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 Za nz o t, 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 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. If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete! it. Quote
racegirl04 Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 I love that guy!!!! Wish Vegas would offer him a bunch of money to be our Sheriff Quote
HappyHour Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 That is so friggen cool!!!! Sheriff Joe ultimately ROCKS!!!! Quote
Richard Cheese Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 unfortunately, he is the ONLY sheriff that believes in what he is doing....i wish more would get on the bandwagon btw....im all for outsourcing our prisioners to CHINA Quote
My4DrGSR Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 I love that guy!!!! Wish Vegas would offer him a bunch of money to be our Sheriff sheriff joe for president! Ditto to both. He friggin rules. Quote
vegas style Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 i like the way he runs the jails shouldnt be like a hotel. and the guys in the tent city get extra good time served credit for living out there so there is a benefit to the prisoners to put up with it. but the way he runs the rest of the city is a little bit much. little over the top for me. Quote
indasand Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 This guy is my freegin hero... I tried raising my kids that way but ended up with divorce #1 j/k Quote
Quicksilver Posted January 25, 2008 Posted January 25, 2008 (edited) Joe Arpaio is Da Man! He's also tough on illegal immigrants and I wish he would run for President. We need an independant thinker like him who won't sell out American interests. Edited January 25, 2008 by Quicksilver Quote
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