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A USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING

 

 

USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING

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 spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

 

He banned smoking and pornographic 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 2007), the Associated Press reported: 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 the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.

"This is ***. 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."

The same day 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.

 

If you agree, pass this on.

If not, just delete it.

 

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected as Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona

 

Edited June 11, 200816 yr by birdluv
fixed the bold letters

I can appreciate that.

I think that all them money saved could go to homeless children and abused children. They should think about implementing minor changes like some of these in Australia... Maybe not the tents but some could be done and many people in need would benifit and hopefully not return to crime when they are older.

When I worked as a counseller then I saw the inside of Barwon prision, outside of freedom they had some really great things. They even could have jobs to make minimum wage and when they left they had a bank account???? Some times I think that some prisions are easier then living on the outside work it's sad but true.

Is that real ? Then it is pretty awesome then.

It's true eh prisoners get a lot of luxury (I don't have cable). Some homeless people even commit crimes just so they can go to prison.

The email came with pictures- looked pretty real to me... I couldn't get the pics to show in the post

In some ways it is real but in actuality it is a publicity stunt that has managed to keep getting good old Sheriff Joe Arpaio re-elected for quite some time. Sure he's a tough man but the press really have had a field day with him over the years.

 

All prisons in the US have to comply with the United Nations Minimum Standards for operations of Prisons and are regularly monitored by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Maricopa County Jail is no different to any other. Sherrif Joe actually has seven jails under his jurisdiction. Have a look here under Tent City as it is known http://www.mcso.org/index.php?a=GetSubModu...Jail_Facilities

 

I retired last year after working for 35 years in prisons both here and overseas. I have visited prisons in America but never got to Arizona to meet the good Sherriff. I would have liked to have and expect it would have been good to talk to him.

 

Here is a photo. It is set up like a military camp.

 

Edited June 11, 200816 yr by Derek

I retired last year after working for 35 years in prisons both here and overseas. I have visited prisons in America but never got to Arizona to meet the good Sherriff. I would have liked to have and expect it would have been good to talk to him.

 

 

I take my hat of to you, it would be a hard thing to work in.

I think this is great...

A USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING

 

 

USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING

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 spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

 

He banned smoking and pornographic 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 2007), the Associated Press reported: 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 the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.

"This is ***. 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."

The same day 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.

 

If you agree, pass this on.

If not, just delete it.

 

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected as Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona

 

 

I got this email too, and AUSTRALIA should take a page out of this book .... Criminals have it easy an ie is noted too that once they've done their time they do another crime to go back in cause it's better then living of the streets