USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA
COUNTY SHERIFF ( ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER
AGAIN.
These are some of the reasons why:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the 'tent city jail' to save Arizona from
spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison
complex.
He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took
away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but 'G' movies. He
says:
'They're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so
they can assault innocent people when they leave.'
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county
and city projects and save taxpayer's money.
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 but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel, he replied: 'So these morons will
know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain
gangs.'
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is
therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he
told them, 'This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't
come back.'
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history 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 that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome
and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his
jails in the first place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116
degrees just set a new record for June 2nd 2007), the Associated
Press reported: 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 the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were
overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128
degrees.
'This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace,' said Ernesto
Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. 'It's inhumane.'
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna
sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. 'Criminals should be punished
for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole,
only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to
live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford
to have for themselves.'
The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat
in the tents: 'It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our
soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in
the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not
committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!'