Only in the good old USA part 2

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Well its not all that bad there is a ray of hope for us yet. How about the sheriff running for president.


Crime and Punishment - Arizona Style
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.
 
He also has no regard for the Constitutional rights of the American people. In his eyes everyone is breaking the law, he just needs a chance to catch them. If you are a fan of his you are no fan of the Bill of Rights.
Good luck to you and your buddy Sheriff Joe!
 
Robert Phillips:
He also has no regard for the Constitutional rights of the American people. In his eyes everyone is breaking the law, he just needs a chance to catch them. If you are a fan of his you are no fan of the Bill of Rights.
Good luck to you and your buddy Sheriff Joe!

After working in the prison service (Northern Ireland) for six years and a year in a young offenders center in the US you would be as well. In these places the inmates have more rights than the staff. And don't kid yourself there life is in constant danger and would be a lot better of with more like him.
 
When we American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, voluntarily, remind you, sweltering simmilarly, I have little compassion for some criminal that does'nt have his cigarettes and pornos.
 
PB565:
When we American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, voluntarily, remind you, sweltering simmilarly, I have little compassion for some criminal that does'nt have his cigarettes and pornos.

Where was the victims rights when they did what ever they did
 
cdiver2:
After working in the prison service (Northern Ireland) for six years and a year in a young offenders center in the US you would be as well. In these places the inmates have more rights than the staff. And don't kid yourself there life is in constant danger and would be a lot better of with more like him.

Oh, I was not talking about his stance on prisoners, I was reffering to his ideas about things like wanting to be able to pull over every car that drives into his county and search them without probable cause. These would be 'mostly' average law abiding citizens protected by the 4th amendment being subject to, not random, but total, illegal searches without any probable cause.
Joe may have some workable prison philosophies, but if you fancy a police state, regardless of you criminal orientation or lack of, good luck to you. If you want to call the guy a hero for one thing, you better be prepared to suffer the consequences of allowing him to have total control.
 
He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
The only thing more inhumane than that would be to subject the prisoners to the series of lectures on economics from my old college professor. :11:
 
Just to comment on the thread title ... this is not an "only in the good ol' USA" thing. Many third-world countries (or parts thereof) are run by people like Sheriff Joe.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
 
NWGratefulDiver:
Just to comment on the thread title ... this is not an "only in the good ol' USA" thing. Many third-world countries (or parts thereof) are run by people like Sheriff Joe.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
And yet it continues to amaze me that people would want that in the "Good ol' USA!"
 
Could someone post the link to his ideas which are contrary to the constitution? Like to look at both sides of the issue.

thanks,
 

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