>
>
>TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO - HE IS THE MARICOPA 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 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.
>
>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--last
>summer(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 ½ years. "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
>
>TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO - HE IS THE MARICOPA 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 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.
>
>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--last
>summer(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 ½ years. "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
