The Sheriff

louixo

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
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 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 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 is a good one......"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.

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.

You have to love this guy!!

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 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."

Arpaio 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."
 

terryandrene

Veteran Expediter
Safety & Compliance
US Coast Guard
ya gotta luv it!
particularly liked the analogous last paragraph.

terry
 

RichM

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
I am suprised that he hasn't been sued by some organization or activist group claiming that his treatment of the prisoners is cruel and inhumane.
 

PeachyPoo

Expert Expediter
They have tired to scream inhumane enviroment. As long as the prisoners are given what they have to, then he is safe. There are parts of Levenworth that still do not have A/C. The prisoners know that they did wrong. They get their hour out a day to "play" other then that they are locked down the other 23 hours a day.
They played and now they are paying. I think it is wonderful what he is doing. Why should prisoners get better then what they had when they were on the outside? Why should we, the tax payers have to pay for their education? Think I agree with the Canadians with this one. They did the crime, why give them privileges?
 
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