Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:

**Chea** · 07-30-2004, 07:29 PM

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:

> > 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 but
>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 is a good one......"This isn't the Rit z
>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, 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, 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 1/2 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 mouths!

>More power to you, Joe!!!!!