Lightning
06-10-2004, 10:06 AM
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona):
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>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.
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>Took away their weights.
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>Cut off all but "G" movies.
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>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 but 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 going to 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 is a good
>one......"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 AZ Sheriff.
>
>With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees
>just set a new record), the Associated Press reports:
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>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:
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>"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."
>
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>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 but 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 going to 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 is a good
>one......"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 AZ 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."
>
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