It Ain't the Ritz Carlton
My sister sent this to me...
To those 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) 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 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.
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 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 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.
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One thing I don't get is how people who break the law and go to jail, have all these frickin rights and are demanding they not be violated (the rights, that is, if you're in jail chance are you will be violated, but in another way :op). Were they thining about other people's rights when they were stealing, or beating, or raping? Fuck no! I say fuck 'em - you don't get shit for sympathy from me. When I was younger and more naive (shit, did I spell that right? If not I'm sure you get it), I had more sympathy for criminals, figuring there must some good in them somewhere, they just lost their way, all they need is someone to care about them, yadda bullshit yadda. Now, like most people, I've grown and become more cynical, and now I say fuck 'em.
In fact, for the worst criminals, the baddest of the bad.... know what I think we should do with 'em? Use them for medical experimentation, instead of cute furry animals. Again, fuck 'em, they deserve it! Why should a cute little innocent animal suffer, while mr. dickhead criminal is in jail reading law books and demanding his rights be respected? I know my little suggestion may sound a little harsh, but is it really? They're just rotting in jail, or waiting on death row while their 5,000 appeals are exhausted; why not give them a purpose, bring meaning to their otherwise now-wasted lives, make lemonfuckingade out of those lemons?
To those 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) 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 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.
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 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 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.
**************
One thing I don't get is how people who break the law and go to jail, have all these frickin rights and are demanding they not be violated (the rights, that is, if you're in jail chance are you will be violated, but in another way :op). Were they thining about other people's rights when they were stealing, or beating, or raping? Fuck no! I say fuck 'em - you don't get shit for sympathy from me. When I was younger and more naive (shit, did I spell that right? If not I'm sure you get it), I had more sympathy for criminals, figuring there must some good in them somewhere, they just lost their way, all they need is someone to care about them, yadda bullshit yadda. Now, like most people, I've grown and become more cynical, and now I say fuck 'em.
In fact, for the worst criminals, the baddest of the bad.... know what I think we should do with 'em? Use them for medical experimentation, instead of cute furry animals. Again, fuck 'em, they deserve it! Why should a cute little innocent animal suffer, while mr. dickhead criminal is in jail reading law books and demanding his rights be respected? I know my little suggestion may sound a little harsh, but is it really? They're just rotting in jail, or waiting on death row while their 5,000 appeals are exhausted; why not give them a purpose, bring meaning to their otherwise now-wasted lives, make lemonfuckingade out of those lemons?
posted by Miss_Vicki at 7:10 PM
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