Daimo B
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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 pending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He banned smoking and porno 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), 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 pink boxer shorts were 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."
Wednesday 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!"
Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces.
Jeez - I wish our nanny state UK would have someone with the bollox of this bloke !!!
Do you think we would have some many gobby little knife weilding 15 year old wigga and homies cruising the streets beating up innocent mums and dads for just walking along, or asking them not to swear in front of our kids etc????
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Marc
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Seen this on Worlds Toughest Prisons, quite funny. Although I wouldn't laugh at one of the inmates!
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Robbo
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Ben J
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This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back
Genius.
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Twiggy
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Brilliant i want to move there!
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FAZ
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 true, why cant the uk follow these guidelines, balls to human rights, they probably killed / raped / stole someone / something to get into prison in the first place
[Edited on 12-11-2009 by FAZ]
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MatthewR
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quote:
Originally posted by FAZ
true, why cant the uk follow these guidelines, balls to human rights, they probably killed / raped / stole someone / something to get into prison in the first place
[Edited on 12-11-2009 by FAZ]
because there are too many do-gooders and our country is a joke and run like one
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ed
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I'm not going to comment on how right or wrong it is, but in the UK you're meant to be re-rehabilitated and made a better person by going to prison. I'm not sure how well humiliation works, but there must be a reason for the way we do things over here?
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SVM 286
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 SO brilliant. We need some prisons like this in the UK. Imagine the tents in the depths of winter.
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Kurt
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I was thinking about this the other night.. Why aren't criminals turned into public spectacles anymore?
Surely they should be shamed, bring back the stockades!
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ShEp
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Prisons can be privately run.
I'm going to buy an old barn and chain some prisoners together,
I doubt they would like the highlands weather
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Ste
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I've had an idea for years on how to instantly double our prison holding capacity and stop prisoners being let out early due to over crowding.
Hot-bed them. they do it in the navy where there are only half the amount of beds as there are crew. as one half works, the other half sleeps.
If they had chain gangs, prison factories etc where they have to graft for their full term and get no pay then it would sort the dossers out. The extra income generated from the work they do would pay for the extra staff required to supervise them.
I would rather lose by a mile because i built my own car, than win by an inch because someone else built it for me.
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DC90
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Seen this on tv before. Top bloke.
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IntaCepta
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This could never happen in britain with the amount of fairies about!
But good on this fella for sorting it out in his county!
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Kurt
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He's right in so many ways, prisons should be a horrible place and be feared, not a place with hot meals, sky tv and pool tables, sounds more like a hotel
why not build them pools too while were at it
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Daimo B
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I wonder if I could write a letter to our local council asking them to spend our spare taxpayers money on getting him to come over here and run a Kent prison for a while...
Could you imagine the press they'd get Doo gooders throwing wobbleys and him turning round and saying this
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