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luci
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Arizona Sheriff's Tent City For Inmates
« on: Feb 11^th, 2005, 10:43am »

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Joe Arpaio Elected Again
> Needless to say he was re elected again this year.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, (in Arizona) who created the tent city jail has meals down to 40 cents
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>>> > serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and
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>>> > porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but
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>>> > "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free
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>>> > work on county and city projects. Then he started chain gangs for
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>>> > women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination. He took away
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>>> > cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that
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>>> > required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again
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>>> > only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked
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>>> > why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's
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>>> > be while they are working on my chain gangs. He cut off coffee since
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>>> > it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told
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>>> > them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come
>>> back."
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>>> > He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes
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>>> > into the jails.
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>>> > More on the Arizona Sheriff: With temperatures being even hotter than
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>>> > usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated
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>>> > Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded
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>>> > tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given
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>>> > permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
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>>> > On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled
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>>> > up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138
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>>> > degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink
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>>> > towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their
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>>> > pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an
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>>> > inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
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>>> > Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long
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>>> > started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is
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>>> > not one bit sympathetic.
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>>> > He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: It's 120 degrees in
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>>> > Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear
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>>> > battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned
>>> mouths!"
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>>> > Way to go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one, there
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>>> > be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders.
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>>> > Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury
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>>> > it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so
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>>> > they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things
>>> > taxpayers
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>>> > can't afford to have for themselves!
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Re: Arizona Sheriff's Tent City For Inmates
« Reply #1 on: Feb 11^th, 2005, 10:45am »

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Sheriff Joe has had the tents, chain gangs, etc. for a number of years now and I for one agree with him. Jail isn't supposed to be pleasant.

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« Reply #2 on: Feb 11^th, 2005, 11:16am »

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Yes, I know for we've seen the TV interview with him and saw the Tent City. An email friend sent this article to me a few days ago. I feel it is appropriate with all that goes on in our ever increasing criminal world.

All states should adopt this, instead of them being warm, fed 3 squares and educated.
Some who get out will commit a small crime to violate their probation, just to get back in, for they do not know what to do with themselves being out of prison.

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Re: Arizona Sheriff's Tent City For Inmates
« Reply #3 on: Feb 11^th, 2005, 2:03pm »

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I don't have any complaints about how this guy handles things. If you don't want to do the time, don't commit the crime! If more wardens handled things this way there might be less petty crimes committed and the jails could fill up with the people who really needed to be there.

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