Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the News!
Now I received this in a email just a little while ago, and this needs some attention I agree to all what was said in this email and more. Go Joe!
You all
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. We have six trees
in our yard from the Prison.
Yup, he
was reelected 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 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 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.
If you
agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.
Sheriff
Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona