Here’s a guy that has a good idea
about wising up the foolish. I wish every prison was run this way. Izzy
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona)
who created the tent city jail 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' 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 1/2 years. "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.
