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TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA
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.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected
Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona
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.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected
Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona
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I know people who have been in or are in prisons in the US and trust me they are uniformally treated like scum, the prison system goes out of its way to make the treatment as unpleasant and nasty as possible.
And whether or not you feel its just to treat criminals like this unless you put money into rehabilitation it doesnt work - the US keeps putting more and more people in prison yet its not getting any safer.
As for "it doesn't work", one could argue that it doesn't because there aren't more prisons like that one.
Its interesting that he makes no mention of rehabilitation, no mention of re-offending what so ever, I'm guessing its not a concern.
And these prisons really arent massively different from any other high security ones in the US, except they are in tents, I'm guessing he just likes to talk tough.
However I'm sure Stargalaxy will agree with this, he's said in the past that criminals should be tortured.
And the prisons here arent a deterant? Or just that you dont think you'll get caught?
So yeah, I do see your point. I'm now in 2 minds, some peopel deserve this kin of prison, some don't but everyone's view on what's deserving is going to be different.
If it was such a fantastic deterrent there would not be anyone there.
By now, I'm pretty sure that Lefties everywhere will be fuming with rage, so I'll leave it at that for now...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
Some of it seems cruel (not a great fan of chain gangs), but to be honest making that the only TV available is Disney and forcing them to wear pink underwear doesn't strike me as wrong and whilst jails should have a rehabilitation function they also need a punishment function.
What VinylVicky posted sounded fine, but the things there don't.
(all per 100,000 of population)
violent crime
2000 - 560.4
2001 - 566.5
2002 - 572.1
Property crime rates (highest of any LA county)
2000 - 5,644.8
2001 - 5,860.3
2002 - 6,274.6
From the 2004 Maricopa County 2004 Annual Report of Community Indicators
Both the values above show an estimated crime reduction in 2003 - but then what government or council document wouldn't claim that? I've not included them here as they are speculation.
Also prisonors normally get cable in jail?!?!?! We can't afford cable and we're bloody law abiding citizens. Ish. Bastards!
Certainly if I believed prisoners had it so good, with their TVs, gyms and access to the internet, I'd be trying to get myself incarcerated!
:rolleyes:
I've been inside a prison and it did have TVs, playstations and gym and basketball court/football ground, and a college. Still wouldn't say it was 'nice' though.
well the mattresses were really thin and most shared cells and had minging toilets in the corner with no door separating it from the sleeping area.
The whole prison smelled of cabbage too.