A different kind of Sherriff

Is this Sheriff Good or Bad?

  • Bad, he mistreats the inmates.

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As sent to me by a suppossedly Liberal friend in NYC. I'm not so sure she's all that Liberal anymore. I kind of like this Sheriff, though.

Democrats or Republicans, I think we're all fed up with the prison system
and we can agree on this one - ??? (Well, here's from one Democrat that
sees nothing wrong with it.)



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 an average 20 cents a serving and charges the
inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their
weights and 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 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 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 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.

http://www.reelectjoe.com/
Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Is this true or just an urban legend? True.
"Indeed, much of the material is excerpted verbatim from press coverage of
Arpaio's 12-year (and counting) term."
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_sheriff_joe_arpaio.htm

 
I'm tempted to forward the e-mail to my Governor and the local County Sheriff. I don't think it'd go over too well with some folks up here, though. If we had a major drime wave, they'd change their opinion real quick,
 
I grew up just on the California side of the river. I never attended a school that had air conditioning, and temperatures got up around 120 during the early part of just about every school year. Classes for grades 4-6 were in Quonset huts. They never once closed the schools or even let us out early just because it was hot. Nobody was allowed to wear shorts to school. Oh, we did get to wear them fo PE Then again, our high school backed up against a large park, separated by a hill. Whenever the coaches decided anybody wasn't working hard enough, we got to run the hill -- about a mile and a half loop with a rise of roughly 300 feet in the middle. I think that's why so many guys enlisted in the Corps ... as an escape.

Whining, pampered little criminals. If you can't do the time ...

Ken
 
Sheriff Joe is quite a guy, the politicians here in MA would wet their pants at the thought of treating criminals that way! But that's the only way to make them "go away" (not want to come back).

This story has been around the Net for a number of years now. I'm not going to check it out on www.snopes.com because I'm 99% certain that it is true. [twisted]
 
I heard about him a few years ago. I particularly like how all the prisoners wear pink undies. I don't see that it is either cruel or inhumane. It's just that so many convicts have to come to realize that jail is kinda cushy. 3 square, bed and bath, weights, free college. Better deal than you get outside of the pokey... Prison should be punishment. They should ALL be modeled after AZ...
 
I agree. It's FREAKING PRISON! Not summer camp. I like it..



I like the pink thing. My grandfather had a business putting up sprinkler systems. Fire Suppresion, not lawn. Anyway, all his tools were painted, "Fire Protection Pink." As soon as he bought them, he painted them. Hammer, threader, ladder, screwdriver, anything.

He never lost a tool on a job site.
 
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