Sheriff Joe is At IT AGAIN!!

[Judy Harder]

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
     
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 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'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 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 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.

Location: The Bay area

[pam]

I thought this guy had a plan the first time I heard about him a few years ago lol. I'd vote for him any day, don't care WHAT party he belongs to!

[Diane Amberg]

I don't know how he gets away with it, but I love it. The idea with the pets is fantastic.  Around here the local farmers fuss because they want to bid to get a contract to feed the prisoners, they see prison farms as competition. They don't want prisoners doing anything that would compete with local commerce.