Wednesday, April 22, 2009

This isn't the Ritz ~You Don't Like it... Don't Come Back!

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!! 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 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 is a good one......"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.
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."

Copied from Local Kentucky Newspaper, after complaints about local jail facility was brought to the news, this article was then reprinted in the newspaper and then officials from the jail distributed the article amongst the prisoners in the local jail, complaints have been withdrawn.



15 comments:

Shelley said...

You go, Joe. This country could use more Sheriff Joe's.

sista #2 said...

I remember seeing this guy on the news. Joe rocks.

peace
#2

Treasia said...

Our country needs many more Joe's out there for inmates.

Noe Noe Girl...A Queen of all Trades. said...

I like Joe! He should run the country!

thevinylvillage said...

why on Earth is there a court order for cable TV in jails??

Hell, cable TV is the first thing to go when my budget feels strained.

TSannie said...

I love that guy! He's brilliant.

Mental P Mama said...

Now that's Joe I can get behind!

The Estrogen Commitee said...

The other side of that coin is the millions of dollars his office has cost the tax payers of Maricopa county. He has lost numerous law-suits do to his 'shoot from the hip' style, deaths in his jail from overzealous deputy's, etc. He does a good interview, but the reality is not so good. (I live in Maricopa county.)

Snooty Primadona said...

I like him! I don't think it should be nice for those who commit crimes. There are plenty of people in this country who live in worse conditions than you find in jails & they never committed a crime. And, I loved his reference to the soldiers because it's true.

It's time that this country made incerceration so bad that people won't want to commit crimes.

Hell yeah!

Shawn said...

I love it! I'm trying to figure out why I haven't come across your blog before....hell, you are showing up over at my sisters.

Well, I'm glad I found ya now!

Missicat said...

Love the comment about the soldiers...puts it all in perspective!
Where is the court order guaranteeing ME cable TV?????

PinkPiddyPaws said...

That is effing awesome!!! Although.. what's wrong with Pink? ha.ha..ha...

Dejoni said...

This guy needs to be the Prez! All prisons/jails need to be more like this and less like a damn country club.

Nicole said...

I agree with Dejoni.........He needs to run for president! I have always agreed with his policies. Why shoudl you commit crimes and get treated so good?!!! Keep it up Joe!

Mango Girl said...

I love Sheriff Joe ~ always have, always will! You play, you pay.