oops , wrong state, hell they all look the same from here
I received this today:
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 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 reelected 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.
(I think the Sheriff has 120 officers trained as of 2008.) He was
on fox news April 7 2008 rounding
illegals up. He was sure catching hell from the Mexicans and the
Phoenix mayor.
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' 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 Cable TV again only let In the Disney
Channel and the Weather Channel.
hen 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 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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