now this is a prison

[BAT*21{usa}]

USA JAIL - SOME INTERESTING READING
TO 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 millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He banned smoking and pornographic 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 morons 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 that 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 2007), the Associated Press reported: 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 the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard 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.'

The same day 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.

[vinsanity]

As one who recently (2006) earned a BS in Criminal Justice Administration, I have studied Arpaio's methods quite a bit over the past few years. Generally he is regarded as an exemplary Sheriff. He really is brilliant in the way he has reduced costs on the taxpayer while maintaining a facility that offers everything that is "required" in regard to incarcerating offenders. He does not allow abuse of inmates by staff or each other either. It is a shame that more county jails do not follow his model.

[Urumii-Previously ThePresident]

Now thats the kind of person I want running things!!! I never got why jails were so nice. And as I was reading that, I was thinking that the military lives in very similar conditions... And then they said the same thing I was thinking. Very smart guy.

[Death's Shadow]

Yep heard of him before.. I salute him.. Prison is not supposed to be nice and comfortable. You are supposed to hate it. You are supposed to suffer. It is punishment, and being such is not supposed to be a vacation. Make it as crappy as possible so people do not want to go there, or go back there. Then the crime rate how it does fall.

[BAT*21{usa}]

and the conditions there are still better than in other countries that dont "baby" their criminals. like on my post write me in as a candidate .like the caning those guys got for vandalizing cars in Singapore i think it was.. here in P.A. the westmoreland county dept. of corrections make the prisoners that are not murderers rapists etc. go out cut the grass and hill sides of county owned property and other work . under supervision in their blaze orange jumpsuits .. the work release ones go to their jobs and return and pay for their cells ,meals and etc. and if their is anything left from that they can keep it.i have read that in many articles.. saving taxpayers money .like a small provision company i used to work at..we had to unload the tractor trailers by hand on rollers.if the driver didn't want to send the stuff down himself he would call the local RCF and they would bring down a couple inmates and they would unload the truck and the driver would pay them.. read in another article second time DUI offenders that get house arrest with a leg monitor and Breathalyzer have to pay for it themselves as does ones that get Breathalyzers installed in their cars so they will not start if they have had something alcoholic to drink