My mum forwarded me this email and I think it is GREAT! Our jails should be like this!!!!! I'd vote him in :o)
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You may 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.
Yup, he was re-elected 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.
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 jail.
**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 isn't The Ritz/Carlton...... If you
don't like it, don't come back."
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.
SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
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