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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: americankahanist on September 04, 2007, 10:02:12 AM
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Update on Joe Arpaio
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:
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' 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.
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Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in
Maricopa County, Arizona
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That guy is great.. I hope he runs for mayor of Phoenix one day.
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He should be President Joe.
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He would make a great President for the U.S. of A.
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I sent the Sheriff an e-mail today stating that he should run for mayor of Phoenix or governor of Arizona. I think all of you should do the same.
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Sheriff Joe's popularity proves something.
It shows that by ignoring the screaching of the liberal media, ACLU, NAACP and all the other subversives and doing what is right, one will succeed.
Arizona might be more conservative than NY, but I still maintain that public officials like him would be popular in the East......at least among the human population.
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This guy's the MAN. I don't think this is an actual prison, it's a jail. Meaning that these people probably aren't repeat offenders and aren't incarcerated for serious or violent felonies. Which means that some of these people still have the chance to be deterred from committing crimes in the future because they aren't serious (relatively) criminals to begin with. Jail should be a place you don't want to go back to, not a place where you can lounge in your private suite while watching porno, smoking cigarettes and getting free food.
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This guy's the MAN. I don't think this is an actual prison, it's a jail. Meaning that these people probably aren't repeat offenders and aren't incarcerated for serious or violent felonies. Which means that some of these people still have the chance to be deterred from committing crimes in the future because they aren't serious (relatively) criminals to begin with. Jail should be a place you don't want to go back to, not a place where you can lounge in your private suite while watching porno, smoking cigarettes and getting free food.
Exactly!
It's like the (discontinued by democrats!) 'Scared Straight' program of the late 70s.
Scare the hell out of them early on so they DON'T 'graduate' to more serious crimes.
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Joe Arpaio is my hero. He is the polar opposite of the Manchurian Candidate senator of his state, John Pétain.
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I don't know about this.
I would support this for rapists, murderers and child molesters.
But I don't want to see a guy treated like this for not paying parking tickets or for possesion of a couple of grams of marijuana.
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I don't know about this.
I would support this for rapists, murderers and child molesters.
But I don't want to see a guy treated like this for not paying parking tickets or for possesion of a couple of grams of marijuana.
I'd guarantee they'd pay the fine in Joe's county.
As for the MJ, I garantee it would be the last time they pocessed it in AZ.
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Probably true.
But I think the punishment should fit the crime.
Parking ticket default and a soft drug use is not a big enough problem to justify such draconian measures.
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Look on the bright side.
I don't think there's any rape in that prison.
I'd rather the heat & bad food and keep my butt intact if I was a young offender.
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Look on the bright side.
I don't think there's any rape in that prison.
I'd rather the heat & bad food and keep my butt intact if I was a young offender.
Newman!!!!!!!!!! OY VEY!!! :o
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Look on the bright side.
I don't think there's any rape in that prison.
I'd rather the heat & bad food and keep my butt intact if I was a young offender.
I agree. Any treatment is better than sodomy.
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I don't know about this.
I would support this for rapists, murderers and child molesters.
But I don't want to see a guy treated like this for not paying parking tickets or for possesion of a couple of grams of marijuana.
No one goes to jail for not paying their parking tickets. It's not legal in the U.S. to go to jail for not paying any kind of debt or tickets. Possession in Arizona won't get you jail time. Simple possession of a personal stash of marijuana won't give you jail time in any state except maybe some of the most extreme states such as Nevada. In California it's basically like a parking ticket and if you complete probation the charge gets dismissed. Some of the people are awaiting trial but people serving in jails are serving under a year for theft, fraud, battery, hard drug possession, that sort of thing.
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Ze'ev,
Can someone sue the prison if bashed or raped in prison for duty of care failure?
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Ze'ev,
Can someone sue the prison if bashed or raped in prison for duty of care failure?
Someone can if it's an egregious case, theoretically. Like if a prison guard was aware of the rape and actually set up the conditions for the rape, he could be sued. I've also heard stories of how it's common for guards and prison personnel to be aware of and even promote rape between inmates. As a practical matter, I don't think it would happen in a case of negligence because that would bring a slew of lawsuits for rape and battery damages and courts wouldn't want to mess with the prisons too much and it would be a burden for the prison which is already overburdened with the prisoners.
If someone gets raped and then comes to court and says that a prison guard has a duty to ensure that no one gets raped and that he was negligent which led to his rape, he wouldn't get anywhere. It's much too burdensome to hold prison guards to that type of standard.
That's what I would imagine anyway. I haven't read any civil cases brought by prisoners against guards nor will I likely ever because I'm not going into criminal law.
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i must say tho,this man has it down pat!...beacon of light.