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tonkatojo
03-Sep-10, 08:40
Foe those who require the origin of this info it came from a pal.;)

I know I agree with the majority of his methods.


SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!


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 OK.

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
behaviour. 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 placed n 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 microchi 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 world 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 fro the Prison.

Yup, he was re-elected last year with 83% of the vote.






Now he's in trouble with the ACLU (Ameerican Civil Liberties Union??)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:


He 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' rated 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!”






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 on 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.

Do you agree.

George Brims
03-Sep-10, 08:55
Here's an interesting bit of data on your oh so successful sheriff. Despite all the hooey being talked about crime being out of control in Arizona (Senator McCain claimed Phoenix is the number 2 kidnapping capital of the world), violent crime in AZ has actually fallen steadily over the last decade. Oh, except for one place. Maricopa County. Maybe he needs to re-order his priorities a little.

Tubthumper
03-Sep-10, 09:08
What kind of thing to the Caithness crims do for their Community Service these days?

tonkatojo
03-Sep-10, 09:09
Here's an interesting bit of data on your oh so successful sheriff. Despite all the hooey being talked about crime being out of control in Arizona (Senator McCain claimed Phoenix is the number 2 kidnapping capital of the world), violent crime in AZ has actually fallen steadily over the last decade. Oh, except for one place. Maricopa County. Maybe he needs to re-order his priorities a little.

A bit of info for you, he is not my sheriff, he's one of your lot.
But having said that, some of his practices would work wonders over here.

Vistravi
03-Sep-10, 13:26
A bit of info for you, he is not my sheriff, he's one of your lot.
But having said that, some of his practices would work wonders over here.

Aye i agree some of them would work here. Escpecilly about the prilvedges. The way the saying goes you can't do the time don't do the crime.

Dadie
03-Sep-10, 16:34
Saw somrthing on telly last night about community service.
Most of the so called work was a joke!
Offenders sitting around doing nothing or if they were doing anything it was not giving back to the community.
Not sure but think it was watchdog and it was manchester area!
Sure some new ideas could be implimented there too!

George Brims
03-Sep-10, 20:05
A bit of info for you, he is not my sheriff, he's one of your lot.
But having said that, some of his practices would work wonders over here.
He's not mine either! I'm just a guestworker over here. Anyway I'm in California. Arizona is definitely another planet.

Some of his ideas are good. Some of them are terrible. One of his sadder ones was to do a raid with sixty (sixty!) armed sheriff's deputies in the middle of the night to grab illegal aliens. The off part of it was they were raiding the county building of a different county, without informing the sheriff of that county. It almost ended in a gun battle. Instead they managed to arrest three elderly cleaning ladies (none of whom turned out to be illegal anyway). I think the main problem with this guy is he is starting to believe his own publicity. That's always a bad thing.