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    Sheriff Joe is at it again!

    Just got this in an E-mail from a relo in the states


    SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
    You all 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 Countywas 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 jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but 'G' rated 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!'


    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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    ...and he has the lowest reoffending rate in the US!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by drivesafe View Post
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    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.'

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    Yeah I heard of him before. Has done a great job, and its good to see that prisoners dont get a free lunch!
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    I agree wholeheartedly, make jail terms harded and shorter, safe the tax payers money and discorage reoffending. trouble with this country is we are all too soft.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armadillo View Post
    ...and he has the lowest reoffending rate in the US!!
    Probably because they move out of the state to where the gaols are not so harsh

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    Quote Originally Posted by Armadillo View Post
    ...and he has the lowest reoffending rate in the US!!
    Ahhh no:

    Quote Originally Posted by http://www.arpaio.com/arpaio-truth/index.php
    Joe Arpaio spent $10,000 in taxpayer money to have Arizona State University study recidivism in the jail system. The result showed that there was no change in the rate at which inmates returned to jail. Sheriff Joe Arpaio immediately declared that ASU was wrong.
    I am gona be on my own here, but I believe the man is a monster.
    Several inmates have died in circumstances the defy belief and are just plain wrong.
    For details (and settlement costs paid by the county office) see the mans wiki page: Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    or: Phoenix News - Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards? - page 1

    Also civilised countries like Iceland refuse to extradite prisoners to Arizona because of the possibility they will end up in one of these tent prisons.
    Quote Originally Posted by (Interim report of the Icelandic Government to the European Committee Against Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT), 1999) [url=http://eng.domsmalaraduneyti.is/reports/nr/126
    Reports < Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs[/url] domsmalaraduneyti.is]
    They demonstrated (to the district court) that the conditions in that (Maricopa County) prison were inhumane and degrading, and that an Icelandic decision to grant the extradition request would therefore conflict with their rights under Article 68 paragraph 1 of the (Icelandic) Constitution, which prohibits torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; Article 3 of the European Human Rights Convention, and Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Supreme Court sustained the view that the legal requirements for extradition were not fulfilled(.)
    I am going to end my little rant by stealing a quote off Slashdot:
    Actually, the best way to judge any society is to see how they treat their jail prison population.
    [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio]Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio Maricopa County must go!

    Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"

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    He has a lot of great ideas - especially about making the prisons self sufficient.

    I can just see his ideas being adopted here - NOT

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    the majority of prisoners we have here in oz (how shall i put this) never done a days work

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    Quote Originally Posted by maca View Post
    Ahhh no:



    I am gona be on my own here, but I believe the man is a monster.
    Several inmates have died in circumstances the defy belief and are just plain wrong.
    For details (and settlement costs paid by the county office) see the mans wiki page: Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    or: Phoenix News - Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards? - page 1

    Also civilised countries like Iceland refuse to extradite prisoners to Arizona because of the possibility they will end up in one of these tent prisons.


    I am going to end my little rant by stealing a quote off Slashdot:


    Joe Arpaio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio Maricopa County must go!

    Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt"

    Ahhhh,,,No,,, Straight back at ya,,,

    Im thinking at this point you've never had your car stolen,,,or broken into,, your house broken into or been caught up in a brawl or anything else,,,,,

    Also, if you read those reports, you'll notice a lot of drugs and booze etc,,

    Sorry, I really am, that their families suffer in the aftermath of it all, but I have no sympathy at all for those that break the law against the public,,,
    The families they have effected through their crimes get to go through hell for the rest of their lives,, so why should prisoners get privilages of any sort,,, I cant afford cable,,and I work for a living,,,

    If they want sympathy, they should look it up...its somewhere between S.... and Syphillis in the Funk amd Wagnels,,,

    Better still, why dont they just "do the right thing" by society and themselves,, then they wont end up in there,,,,,,,,,

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