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klassykitten
Toccoa, GA
age: 50 online now!
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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 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.
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.
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| 10/21/2007 3:01:37 AM |
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mcrae06
Conroe, TX
age: 46
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Sheriff Joe,
I'd vote for him, I think we could use more like him.
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| 10/21/2007 3:04:15 AM |
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ladyfireeyes81
Redwood City, CA
age: 26
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I applaud him! We need more men like that here!
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| 10/21/2007 3:25:53 AM |
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yorkbeach
York Beach, ME
age: 36
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I'd like to see any of you last a month in a hell hole like that.. It dosn't take much to be a criminal these days.. Be careful what you wish on others......some day one of you might be on the other side of the fence.. Your Hero sheriff is not the person who you think he is... Only god will judge all!!! Wake up and see the big picture.
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| 10/21/2007 3:35:08 AM |
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dg1260
Galion, OH
age: 46
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Yorkbeach, it is not about judgment, it's about criminals having more privilege than hardworking tax paying citizens.
I've lived and worked in Phoenix. At the time I was waiting for my first job out of college and took a job in a laundry. It was so hot in there that it felt cooler outside (don't really know the temp). Tell me why people who have been sentenced to jail should have more privileges than I did? I couldn't even afford cable tv at the time.
As pointed out, we have service men and women who have to wear full field gear in the same conditions. They don't get to hang out under the shade of tents.
Talk to any of the highway crews that operate in AZ and see if they have sympathy.
Jail is not supposed to be a hotel room. It is supposed to be a place that people would choose to avoid.
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| 10/21/2007 4:09:43 AM |
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imtrublu
Rialto, CA
age: 45
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“When the inmates complained, he told them, "This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton.....If You Don't Like It,
Don't Come Back…
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!"
HELL YEAH!!!!!! I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM IN A SECOND.
Dg1260, was going to tell york what I thought of his post, (when I first read it I got the impression he may be one of those illegal immigrants or something with that attitude, maybe just a repeat offender or something, who knows) but you pretty much covered the sentiment for me.
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| 10/21/2007 4:51:50 AM |
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stormygrl
Longmont, CO
age: 41
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He needs to start a training program - so his system could be implemented throughout the jails all over.
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| 10/21/2007 5:39:51 AM |
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hanover
Harrison, MI
age: 53
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Hats off to Joe Arpaio. We
need someone like him in Michigan.
Found out there closing Jackson
Prison the end of this month.Like
Michigan isn't in dire straights
already,maybe they'll send them to
Mr.Arpaio?
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| 10/21/2007 11:06:33 AM |
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klassykitten
Toccoa, GA
age: 50 online now!
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I am so glad I don't feel this way all alone...Hell yeah...My "give a damn is busted" when they live better than me...I love Sheriff Joe....Love the part he told them about the soldiers...You go Joe....
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| 10/21/2007 1:09:29 PM |
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chopperbabe
Selah, WA
age: 46
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Love it!!! Too bad there aren't more like Joe Arpaio around. 
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| 10/21/2007 1:28:45 PM |
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peaches73036
El Reno, OK
age: 40
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Klassy, I'm glad there are men out there like that but, I'm gonna tell you my hero's.. My guys..Last nite after a funeral and while at my bro's going away party..I thought I was doing well having to be around my ex and my family..My youngest son came up to me...He whispered in my ear..."Mom, I will always be your baby and you can do this".
I about fell over. I told him today..That was the best thing in the whole world to hear.
Sorry, I'm not trying to change the subject..I just think kids rock!!
xoxoPeaches.
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| 10/21/2007 1:35:33 PM |
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agent05949
Greenville, MI
age: 56
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Klassy, nice thread....there ought to be Tent Cities in every State.
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| 10/21/2007 1:41:25 PM |
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peaches73036
El Reno, OK
age: 40
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What this man does should be an example to more Officials.
xoxoPeaches.
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| 10/21/2007 1:42:46 PM |
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johnnybravo76
Mechanicsville, VA
age: 31
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if i ever go back to prison im gonna spank his wife lol
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