> >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.
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>>These are some of the reasons why:
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>> Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from
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>>spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison
>>complex.
>>* He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the
>>inmates for them.
>>* He banned smoking and porno 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
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>>theycan assault innocent people when they leave."
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>>* He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on
>>county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.
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>>* Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued
>>for discrimination.
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>>* 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
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>>TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
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>>* 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."
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>>* 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."
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>> * 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
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>>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
>>firstplace.
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>> * With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116
>>degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), 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.
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>> * On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were
>>chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is
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>>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."
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>> * 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."
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>> * Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat
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>>in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers
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>>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!"
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>> * 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
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>>out of prison spaces.
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>>* If you agree, pass this on. If not, you are a namby-pamby liberal
>>bed-wetter so just delete it.
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>>Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona