[Shotimes] OT: Way it should be
kickinsho
kickinsho@charter.net
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:28:30 -0600
> The way it should be
> Needless to say he was re elected again this year.
>
>
> Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the tent city jail has
> 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 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."
>
> He bought Newt Gingrich's 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 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 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 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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