Now this is a REAL Sheriff!!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:27:11 Post Subject: Now this is a REAL Sheriff!!

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 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 (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 = 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.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

YEA BABY!!! He's the man!!!
True storied, verified - http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.asp

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:39:31 Post Subject:

Sheriff Joe is DA MAN!!! We need more like him

knight0334 · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 13:57:26 Post Subject:

Seen that before..

He's my hero. lol If I ever get elected sheriff, you can bet I'll do the same.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:26:41 Post Subject:

His onw web page has alot of the same stuff...

http://www.mcso.org/submenu.asp?file=aboutsheriff&page=1

But there it says only 20 cents per meal!! Yikes

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:36:16 Post Subject:

Why couldn't we have more Top L.E. officials like him?? why Bang Head

why

Shadowsilence · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:43:56 Post Subject:

That man is my hero.

BeerLotus · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 14:52:06 Post Subject:

haha thats great, makes everyone wear pink....... thats gotta make it really odd

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

When I commit my big crime, I want to be treated like royalty!

HackaX0rus · Posted: Thu, 05 May 2005 15:39:19 Post Subject:

ya so about taht jim...the part of the plan involving the bunnies was a tad fuzzy to me can you explain it again.

Kilamon · Rated XXX Joined: 22 Mar 2005 Posts: 811

The only issue I have with this is that not all criminals deserve to be in jail. The system sucks and is more of a guilty until proven innocent and if you can't pay for an attorney but don't qualify financially for one, you may as well be guilty. His jail sounds like it walks a fine line between being inhumane and being a jail, but a blanket policy like his fails to account for nonviolent criminals who, in my opinion, are the ones suffering the most in his jail for being treated in a manner not fitting their crime (petty theft does not equate to a year in a tent in pink boxers but murder certainly could). After all, if you're caught speeding in his county, and you're handed a jail sentence, do you want to spend a month in a tent wearing boxers with a murderer?