lol he has a point !

[simzzzz]

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 million of dollars on another expensive prison complex. He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the
inmates for them.

He banned smoking and porno 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 ******
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 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), 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 pink boxer shorts were
chatting in the tents , where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is
hell. 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." Wednesday 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.

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

[Amelie]

Lol, whilst he does talk a lot of sense in many ways there is of course lots of ethical issues re: the prisioners treatment.

Those wrongly convicted, those awaiting senny etc- do they get comp for such harsh treatment if found innocent?

Banning porn? Hmnn, do we really want sex offenders having no outlet? Disney channel? Treat people like children, perhaps they might act like children when the whole point of rehabilitation is to actually turn these peeps into respectable adults.

Pink undies? Why, what purpose does it serve?- its clearly not humilating them- just making the enforcer look a twat lol and just a little desperate.

The whole '40 cents' shiz is daft too, what with the consequences on health after these people are released- a further burden for tax payers. From a health education aspect its piss poor an all.

I hardly think it would reduce crime overall, the death penalty seems not to.