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Man from La Mancha
10-27-2007, 02:43 AM
Helps their, nutrition, caring and mind.


Subject: FW: SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!



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 Done" kind of Sheriff.

TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO,

HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY ARIZONA SHERIFF

AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER

THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:

It was 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 Damned 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.

Omnis
10-27-2007, 03:27 AM
Hahaha. That's awesome.

noxagol
10-27-2007, 06:02 AM
THAT IS FUCKING AMAZING! I see people cutting the grass around here a lot, get the inmates to do it. This is one type of slave labor we CAN use, and I don't feel bad about it, because it is their restitution to society for what they have done.

CCTelander
10-27-2007, 06:49 AM
Hmmm.

Arpaio says of Romney "He's a man of principle, of good character. He did a great job in Massachusetts and I feel he's going to make a great president."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255428,00.html

A little insight into his methods and character:

"The British documentary showed that the number of prisoners in the county jail system had doubled since Arpaio took office. It documented cases of brutality and death within the prison, the use of restraint chairs, and the response of prisoners families to the deaths within the prison; including the formation of a Mothers against Arpaio group.

...

"The idea that running a prison of this kind could present savings to the taxpayer does not hold up. The tents and food both army surplus and on the surface it is a cheap deal. But Arpaio controls both the police and prisons, so he uses savings in prison to prop up the police. For every amenity that he cuts from the prisons, he buys some unnecessary and expensive piece of equipment, gets the county involved in lawsuits due to his cruel prison management, or pays for an extravagant publicity stunt. In his second term of office alone, he bought a howitzer with $15,000 tires, a $70,000 armored car, spent $3 million to move to a penthouse office with big-screen TVs and other luxuries, and spent more than a million dollars on take-home vehicles for his favorite staffers. By 2001, some $16 million had already been paid to plaintiffs in successful lawsuits against the Sheriffs Department in relation to inmate deaths.

...

The Family of Scott Norberg. Norberg died in custody in 1996. Norberg was shocked more than 20 times with a stun-gun, including on his testicles. Norberg was already handcuffed and face down when officers dragged him from his cell and placed him in a restraint chair with a towel covering his face. After Norberg's corpse was discovered, detention officers accused Norberg of attacking them as they were trying to restrain him. The cause of his death, according to the Maricopa County medical examiner, was due to positional asphyxia. Sheriff Arpaio investigated and subsequently cleared County detention officers of any criminal wrongdoing. Norbergs parents filed a lawsuit against Joe Arpaio and his office. The lawsuit was settled for $8.25 million (USD) following a highly contentious legal battle. Despite vowing to never settle, the case quickly closed after it was disclosed the Sheriff's office had destroyed key evidence in the case.


The Family of Brian Crenshaw: Brian Crenshaw was a blind inmate beaten into a coma by guards working under Arpaio. Crenshaw suffered injuries that included a perforated intestine and a broken neck. He later died at a local hospital. When asked about the incident, Arpaio insisted, "The man fell off a bunk." "

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00325.htm

http://policecrimes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3675&sid=589a6807ae28d6900773a682b5dfd347

Doesn't appear to be any kind of a hero to me.

inibo
10-27-2007, 07:45 AM
The punishment is deprivation of liberty, anything beyond that is cruel and unusual.

That being said, putting able-bodied prisoners to work in humane conditions is OK in my book. I doubt many of the prisoners working in the animal shelter dislike their work. I hate to say it, but, assuming they are not imprisoned for victimless crimes and discounting its market skewing, that actually sounds like a successful government program.

Man from La Mancha
10-27-2007, 08:22 AM
Hmmm.

Arpaio says of Romney "He's a man of principle, of good character. He did a great job in Massachusetts and I feel he's going to make a great president."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,255428,00.html

A little insight into his methods and character:

"The British documentary showed that the number of prisoners in the county jail system had doubled since Arpaio took office. It documented cases of brutality and death within the prison, the use of restraint chairs, and the response of prisoners families to the deaths within the prison; including the formation of a Mothers against Arpaio group.


http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0707/S00325.htm

http://policecrimes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3675&sid=589a6807ae28d6900773a682b5dfd347

Doesn't appear to be any kind of a hero to me.

If thats so it's also the same all over USA's prison and should not be condoned and should be stopped everywhere. But it's a step in the right direction instead of the super costly prison monopoly we got now.

As far as his big expenses, it could be like most government programs you take what they give and many just try to find ways to use it up so they don't get cut next year. But again something the city and the voters could correct if they want too.

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