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SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN! Update on Joe Arpaio

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 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 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:

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 al l 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 AgainOnly 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 i nside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, p ink 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

On the news this morning (December 11, 2007) Sheriff Joe has instituted another Road Gang for DUI Offenders. They will clean up around Phoenix and wear a pink shirt with a sign on the back that says 'Cleaning and Sober' and striped prison pants. What a guy. You just gotta love him
 

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I live in Maricopa County and I love Sherrif Joe. He is in the news on a daily basis and does love the media attention. Of late he mostly has been criticized about his enforcing the law against illegal immigration. People are screaming "profiling" and discrimination. But the thing is HE IS INFORCING EXISTING LAW!! HE IS DOING HIS JOB! So he continues to get blasted by the (liberal) media, and he continues to win the election for sherrif by huge margins each election.
 

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i can't believe all those people lost their jobs just to give inmates work! :devil:

since sarcasm is hard to read, that was a joke!

i've long since had a plan to deal with the ever increasing burden of the California penal system...

1. each prison has its own function. growing, producing, eating their own food. making, laundering, wearing their own clothing. there are enough doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. that prisoners can conduct their own business, build their own prisons (sing sing prison, known as the most fortified of all prisons, was built by inmates). of course, keep a couple of the hard-core prisons for the nonconformitives. for those inmates who do not have a skill, they get to pick tomatoes, etc. etc. those that don't want to work, don't get out of jail.

1a. all surplus is given to a non-profit organization to be dispersed in the community. this would be greatly reduce the need for food stamps and the like. those poor individuals will be allowed a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a pair of pants, etc.

2. sentence inmates to work hours. "you have to work xxx hours." if they're sick, no time taken off the books. let someone else work OT for them!

3. give the businesses hurt from all the lost business a tax exemption of some sort.

this is the reader's digest version of my plan. it'll work!!
 

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I really like this guy for what he does, but he is such a media hound! One thing is for sure, no one ever wants to go to his jail!
 

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i can't believe all those people lost their jobs just to give inmates work! :devil:

since sarcasm is hard to read, that was a joke!

i've long since had a plan to deal with the ever increasing burden of the California penal system...

1. each prison has its own function. growing, producing, eating their own food. making, laundering, wearing their own clothing. there are enough doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. that prisoners can conduct their own business, build their own prisons (sing sing prison, known as the most fortified of all prisons, was built by inmates). of course, keep a couple of the hard-core prisons for the nonconformitives. for those inmates who do not have a skill, they get to pick tomatoes, etc. etc. those that don't want to work, don't get out of jail.

1a. all surplus is given to a non-profit organization to be dispersed in the community. this would be greatly reduce the need for food stamps and the like. those poor individuals will be allowed a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs, a pair of pants, etc.

2. sentence inmates to work hours. "you have to work xxx hours." if they're sick, no time taken off the books. let someone else work OT for them!

3. give the businesses hurt from all the lost business a tax exemption of some sort.

this is the reader's digest version of my plan. it'll work!!
These are some GREAT ideas. I like the way you think.
 
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Very cool that he is helping the animals too and giving the inmates a bit of knowledge in the process. Our county jail continually fails it's inspections for state regulations and still nothing changes. I wish we had this guy.
 
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