On Apr 19, 2007, at 10:56 PM, Tamara P Duvall wrote:
On Apr 20, 2007, at 1:16, Carol Melton wrote:
It's pretty hard to collapse from heat stroke when all you are
doing is sitting around in your pink under shorts.
I thought the point was they were chain-gang *working*? Did I get
it wrong?
They are not out chain gang working everyday. An when they are out
on the chain gangs they may have on their pink shorts but they are
covered up with the old fashioned black and white stripes that we
think of when we think of someone in jail. And I don't remember
seeing them after say 11 a.m. picking up trash along the road ways.
We live near a farming area and during harvest you will see some
prisoners picking produce in the fields. Early morning to lunch
time. These aren't Sheriff Joe's prisoners though, these are state
held prisoners. You might see them out at 5 a.m. but not during the
major heat of the day. I presume the prisoners who are harvesting
vegetables are paid something for their work - I have also heard that
they can volunteer for the chain gangs - but if that is true I don't
know.
The guards are standing outside in the heat with their uniforms on.
In the heat, packing the heat. Sorry, irresistible.
That was a good one! :)
They aren't stripped down to their shorts.
And if they were, I'm sure their shorts wouldn't be pink :)
Actually, stripping down is about the worst thing you can do in
hight heat and strong sun.
Very true. But the prisoners are sitting in their tents and they
think it's a privilege.
It seems that you either love Sheriff Joe or you hate him -
there does not seem to be any middle ground.
Well, I *am* kind-a in the middle in my judgement of him and his
methods; didn't I say it clearly enough? I do wish, though, that
some of the low-security criminals from DC -- Libby, Cunningham,
Ney, Abramoff et al -- could be sent to Sheriff Joe for training
too. They could, probably, learn something from such rehabilitation-
through-honest-work-and-reconnecting-with-nature program instead of
sitting, all day long,atching TV in AC'd villas, being deprived --
oh, horror! -- of e-communication with their stockbrokers...
Lot's of people feel criminals should not be getting all those
privileges you just mentioned which is what keeps Sheriff Joe in
office. He's in his middle 70's now but you don't see much sign of
him slowing down.
--
Carol Melton
Valley of the Sun
Phoenix, AZ U.S.A.
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