If your not familiar with Joe Arpaio He is the Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff
and keeps getting elected again and again
WHY??
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the "tent city jail": Due to overcrowding
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 letting in the Disney, 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.
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!"
Maybe if all County Jails 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.
This guy kicks ass...
When he running for President? He's got my vote already.
Now that's cruel and unusual punishment *snicker*He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.
Newt is just about most obnoxious thing in the known universe...
yea its right. It's hardly the price to pay for a murderer or rapist. If you cant do the time, dont commit the crime.
Yeah, this is real stand-up guy!
The Scott Norberg case
One major controversy includes the 1996 death of inmate Scott Norberg while he was in custody. Norberg was arrested for chasing two young girls in Mesa, Arizona. Reportedly high on methamphetamines, Norberg was accused of attacking the jail detention officers who were trying to restrain him. In the subsequent struggle and restraint, he died. According to an investigation by Amnesty International, Norberg was already handcuffed and face down when officers dragged him from his cell and placed him in a restraint chair with a towel covering his face. His death, according to the Maricopa County medical examiner, was due to "positional asphyxia". County detention officers were acquitted of wrongdoing.
Norberg’s parents filed a lawsuit against Joe Arpaio and his office. The lawsuit was settled for $8.25 million (USD). Arpaio has consistently defended his officers' actions and the jail procedures and neither the Justice Department nor the FBI, which investigated the allegations, filed charges.
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The Brian Crenshaw case
Brian Crenshaw was a blind inmate allegedly beaten to death by guards working under Arpaio. Crenshaw suffered injuries that included a perforated intestine and a broken neck. When asked about the incident, Arpaio insisted, "The man fell off a bunk."
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The Fountain Hills prank calls case
During April, 2004, Arpaio became involved in more controversy when he accused the West Bridgewater, Massachusetts Police Department of being unprofessional over their handling of surveillance tapes from an AT&T store that showed a suspect making prank calls to several restaurants. The calls instructed restaurant managers to strip-search female customers — minors included. Several managers were arrested as a result. Arpaio believed that the suspect in the tapes from West Bridgewater might be connected to a similar case in Fountain Hills, Arizona. In response to Arpaio's comments, West Bridgewater Sheriff Raymund S. Rogers was quoted as saying "I think he's mad that our detectives just happen to be better than his detectives".
The West Bridgewater Police Department has refused to share the tapes showing the suspect prank-caller with Arizona law enforcement for the Fountain Hills investigation.
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James Saville
James Saville was arrested in 1999 for attempting to murder Joe Arpaio. A jury decided that officers from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department had entrapped Saville and found him not guilty [2].
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Torture
Arpaio has been accused of allowing the torture of inmates at his jails in a do entary from Channel 4 in Britain Channel 4.
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Illegal Aliens
Recently, Joe Arpaio has stated on FOX News as well as radio stations that he is deporting illegal aliens back to Mexico if they have committed felonies. He has deported over one hundred to date, and has gained largely public support for doing so. Arpaio uses for enforcement a controversial ruling by his county's attorney, which constructs undo ented workers as felon co-conspirators in human smuggling. Punishment could be up to two years in jail, and the county attorney's legal opinion is being challenged in court.
Wikipedia
Wait...
There's a FEDERAL ORDER for Cable TV in prisons??
Yeah, this is real stand-up guy!
The Scott Norberg case
One major controversy includes the 1996 death of inmate Scott Norberg while he was in custody. Norberg was arrested for chasing two young girls in Mesa, Arizona. Reportedly high on methamphetamines, Norberg was accused of attacking the jail detention officers who were trying to restrain him. In the subsequent struggle and restraint, he died. According to an investigation by Amnesty International, Norberg was already handcuffed and face down when officers dragged him from his cell and placed him in a restraint chair with a towel covering his face. His death, according to the Maricopa County medical examiner, was due to "positional asphyxia". County detention officers were acquitted of wrongdoing.
Norberg’s parents filed a lawsuit against Joe Arpaio and his office. The lawsuit was settled for $8.25 million (USD). Arpaio has consistently defended his officers' actions and the jail procedures and neither the Justice Department nor the FBI, which investigated the allegations, filed charges.
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The Brian Crenshaw case
Brian Crenshaw was a blind inmate allegedly beaten to death by guards working under Arpaio. Crenshaw suffered injuries that included a perforated intestine and a broken neck. When asked about the incident, Arpaio insisted, "The man fell off a bunk."
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The Fountain Hills prank calls case
During April, 2004, Arpaio became involved in more controversy when he accused the West Bridgewater, Massachusetts Police Department of being unprofessional over their handling of surveillance tapes from an AT&T store that showed a suspect making prank calls to several restaurants. The calls instructed restaurant managers to strip-search female customers — minors included. Several managers were arrested as a result. Arpaio believed that the suspect in the tapes from West Bridgewater might be connected to a similar case in Fountain Hills, Arizona. In response to Arpaio's comments, West Bridgewater Sheriff Raymund S. Rogers was quoted as saying "I think he's mad that our detectives just happen to be better than his detectives".
The West Bridgewater Police Department has refused to share the tapes showing the suspect prank-caller with Arizona law enforcement for the Fountain Hills investigation.
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James Saville
James Saville was arrested in 1999 for attempting to murder Joe Arpaio. A jury decided that officers from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department had entrapped Saville and found him not guilty [2].
[edit]
Torture
Arpaio has been accused of allowing the torture of inmates at his jails in a do entary from Channel 4 in Britain Channel 4.
[edit]
Illegal Aliens
Recently, Joe Arpaio has stated on FOX News as well as radio stations that he is deporting illegal aliens back to Mexico if they have committed felonies. He has deported over one hundred to date, and has gained largely public support for doing so. Arpaio uses for enforcement a controversial ruling by his county's attorney, which constructs undo ented workers as felon co-conspirators in human smuggling. Punishment could be up to two years in jail, and the county attorney's legal opinion is being challenged in court.
Wikipedia
My advice would be to not get thrown in Arpaio's jail...or do stuff like commit crimes and chase young women while you are deranged on speed.
Arpaio has also ins uted what he calls "Hard Knocks High", the only accredited high school in an American jail.
That, along with an anti-drug program, says Arpaio, has resulted in a high percentage of his inmates leaving jail without their addictions and few of them returning.
http://www.cnn.com/US/9907/27/tough.sheriff/
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Arizona criminals find jail too in-'tents'
Arpaio has dramatically cut prison costs since becoming sheriff seven years ago
July 27, 1999
Web posted at: 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT)
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MARICOPA COUNTY, Arizona (CNN) -- The tent city looks like a military camp in the desert, with thick canvas sleeping quarters spreading out in a remote area of Arizona.
The inhabitants, however, are not soldiers, but residents of an unusual, some say brutal, prison run by legendary lawman Joe Arpaio, called the toughest sheriff in the West.
For the Maricopa County sheriff, who opened the nation's largest tent prison in 1993, saving taxpayer pennies matters more than comforting convicted felons.
"We took away coffee, that saved $150,000 a year. Why do you need coffee in jail?" says Arpaio, patrolling the dusty, barren grounds. "Switched to bologna sandwiches, that saved half a million dollars a year."
Arpaio makes inmates pay for their meals, which some say are worse than those for the guard dogs. Canines eat $1.10 worth of food a day, the inmate 90 cents, the sheriff says. "I'm very proud of that too."
Critics rail against harsh conditions in the prison, where temperatures can top 100 degrees.
"We still have rights, but they act like we're s ," one inmate complains.
Adds Eleanor Eisenberg of the ACLU: "Sheriff Arpaio has conditions in his jail that are inhumane, and he's proud of it."
Arpaio boasts of his chain gangs for men and women, which "contribute thousands of dollars of free labor to taxpayers each month," according to his Web site.
Sheriff Arpaio requires inmates to wear striped uniforms and pink underwear
Pink underwear and bedtime stories
Inmates follow strict fashion and lifestyle guidelines. They are forced to wear old-fashioned prison stripes and pink underwear. Prohibited items include cigarettes, adult magazines, hot lunches and television -- except for his bedtime story reading, a self-styled literacy program broadcast nightly to the inmates.
The sheriff, who spent more than 25 years in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, including a stint as a special agent in Turkey, has taken justice to rare extremes in other areas as well.
He has the nation's largest group of volunteer law enforcers, according to his Web site. More than 2,500 people are in his "posse," who go after pros utes, graffiti artists and criminals at shopping malls.
Although Arpaio has lowered the prison budget, his unorthodox prison management style has led to some high legal expenses. The country has been hit with hundreds of inmate-related lawsuits, and ordered to pay millions in legal damages. Recent cases include:
In January, the county settled a wrongful-death suit filed by the family of Scott Norberg for $8.5 million. He died, reportedly of asphyxiation, as he struggled with prison guards in 1996.
The inmates live in tents in a sparse environment without air conditioning
In April, a jury awarded $1.5 million to an inmate denied medical treatment for a perforated ulcer. Tim Griffin, arrested for driving with a suspended license, required several surgeries for the perforated ulcer.
Another former inmate suing Arpaio, Richard Post, a paraplegic, claims guards treated him brutally and caused spinal cord damage.
Arpaio, who has also settled a civil suit with the U.S. Department of Justice over jail conditions, brushes off charges of brutality.
"That's garbage. Look at my officers. We run the safest jail system in the U.S.," he said.
Arpaio is among the state's most popular office-holders. He enjoys an 85 percent approval rating among voters in the county, which at 9,200 square miles is larger than some states, and includes the city of Phoenix.
Even some inmates treat him like a celebrity. As the sheriff stands in a group of female prisoners, one presents a legal pad.
"You want an autograph? What you got here? What's your name?" he asks.
On another occasion, a male prisoner, a look of anger on his face, tries to talk to the sheriff, who quickly interrupts:
"You have been convicted. You're doing your time. Do your time and shut your mouth and do what you have to do."
Canines eat $1.10 worth of food a day, the inmate 90 cents, the sheriff says. "I'm very proud of that too."
LMAO...you are s ...what an idiot."We still have rights, but they act like we're s ," one inmate complains.
This guy rules....too bad he's 75 years old.
And...
His people are happy with the job he does.He enjoys an 85 percent approval rating among voters in the county, which at 9,200 square miles is larger than some states, and includes the city of Phoenix.
I bet that 120 degree heat results in a very passive group of criminals as well.
criminals. Could give a rats-ass if some get beat to death or God forbid, heat stroke.
They forfeited their rights upon conviction. You now have one freedom...the freedom to live.
Dark, I don't know that I entirely believe what this man is doing is wrong...but I do not believe that it is said anywhere in the cons ution or any other set of laws that criminals lose all rights save the one to life.
Now, even if I am mistaken, and that is wrong, if prisoners die in the hands of the prison, then they are losing that right as well....
Oh, I know that. I was just opining.
I am exaggerating to prove a point. Dont be so literal.Now, even if I am mistaken, and that is wrong, if prisoners die in the hands of the prison, then they are losing that right as well....
lol, I wouldnt be so literal....but that is the outlook that many people actually do have, and they must have that view to give him such overwhelming support.
There is a happy medium in everything, and if found, is often the best place to operate. He can make his prison without making it downright torture.
I mean, ignoring the people who deserve to be there, but some people are wrongly inprisoned, and others, I am sure, may not have committed crimes bad enough to warrant that kind of punishment.
No prison should actually have prisoners die due to the conditions, not in a civilized society.
Seriously... Cable?
That would most likely be the failure of the judicial system...
It's not his job to determine guilt or innocence, it's his job to house those found guilty.
What kind of punishment?I am sure, may not have committed crimes bad enough to warrant that kind of punishment.
Like the man said...the guys fighting in Iraq aren't criminals....why should criminals have it better?
It's criminals that keep a society from being civilized...No prison should actually have prisoners die due to the conditions, not in a civilized society.
I like this guy!
I like what he is doing but can't help but feel bad for the guy who was denied medical treatment just for driving with a suspended license. I could care less what happens to the murderers and rapists.
I heard about this guy a while back but never paid him much mind figuring he would be gone soon………..
No tacos and cable………. Certainly inhumane.....lol
What is the recidivism in the county?? I goggled around and found many conflicting numbers???
I wonder how much the crime rate has gone down in that county.
probably a considerable amount, i would guess around 25%.
We shouldn't have to guess with this guy's media coverage.
http://www.arpaio.com/
lmao a site dedicated to getting rid of him
I saw that but I am not sure if their info is correct......... I was looking for something "official"........ You run accross any???
Sorry thats what i was looking for......keep checking maybe someone will post something.
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