This is all true. Wonder if Sheriff Joe would want to be President!


For those of you not familiar with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he is the Sheriff of Maricpoa County, Arizona. Here's his philosophy...

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. (His web site actually says 15 cents) Bio

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."


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 damned 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.

Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona for an unprecentented 4th 4 year term.



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