OT Update on Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Hilde)

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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 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!

W. Pfeiffer D.C., D.A.B.C.O