SHERIFF
JOE
IS AT IT AGAIN !
You may
remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio
of Arizona, who
painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates
wear
pink prison garb.
Well.........
SHERIFF
JOE IS AT IT AGAIN
!
Oh, there's MUCH
more to know about
Sheriff Joe !
Maricopa County was spending approx.
$18
million dollars a year on stray animals, like
cats and dogs. Sheriff
Joe offered to take the
department over, and the County Supervisors
said
okay.
The animal shelters are now all
staffed and operated by
prisoners. They feed and
care for the strays. Every animal in his care
is
taken out and walked twice daily. He now has
prisoners who are
experts in animal nutrition
and behavior. They give great classes for
anyone
who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally
taken stray dogs
off the street, given them to
the care of prisoners, and had them place in
dog
shows.
The
best part? His budget for the
entire department
is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted
a
Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two
years ago. He was
neutered and current on all
shots, in great health, and even had a
microchip
inserted the day we got him. Cost us $78.
The prisoners get the benefit of
about
$0.28 an hour for working, but most would work
for free, just to
be out of their cells for the
day. Most of his budget is for
utilities,
building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners
out of the
fees collected for adopted animals.
I have long wondered when the rest
of
the country would take a look at the way he runs
the jail system and
copy some of his ideas. He
has a huge farm, donated to the county
years
ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most
of their own fresh
vegetables and
food, doing
all the work and harvesting by
hand.
He
has a pretty good sized hog farm,
which provides meat and
fertilizer. It fertilizes
the
Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners
work, and you
can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for
the
holidays and plant it later. We have six
trees in our yard from the
prison.
Yup, he was re-elected last year with
83% of the
vote.
Now he's in trouble with the ACLU
again. He painted
all his buses and vehicles
with a mural that has a special hotline phone
number
painted on it, where you can call and
report
suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and
Customs Enforcement
wasn't doing enough in his
eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained
specifically
for enforcing immigration laws, started up his
hotline, and
bought 4 new buses just for hauling
folks back to the border. He's kind of
a
'Git-R-Dun' kind of 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 jail.
** 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 isn't
The Ritz/Carlton...... If you don't like
it,
don't come back."
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 year. "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 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.
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on.
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would you do that?