Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona)
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
but 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 is a good
one......"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 AZ 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 1/2 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."
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
but 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 is a good
one......"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 AZ 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 1/2 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."
