Sheriff joe is at it again!

[Adatise]

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well..........

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 S heriff..

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.'


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.

[Bender]

I think this post would have been greater if the font size would be twice as big.

[denny007]

I think this post would have been greater if the font size would be twice as big.

Yeah or even better one huge letter per screen

[Raider]

I know Joe, If he ever ran for President, he'd get my vote

[jberryhill]

Interesting sig line, Adatise.

[JMJ]

Sheriffs department/inmates have been running ours here in Nashville for years. Could be wrong but I don't think they get paid though.

[DomainsInc]

Do you people ever get tired of passing around email forwards with misinformation? Joe did not take over the Maricopa animal shelters but rather helped open a no kill animal safe hospice ran by the Sheriffs office in Maricopa. Either way, he sounds like a good guy.

[500,000]

If prisoners where made to work for pennies a day. then they would be takeing your job next.


If prisoners where made to work for pennies a day. Then you would get aressted for anything to support the state (Obama new world order)

[stock_post]

I like the post - can't comprehend the font size.

[DomainMagnate]

I like the post - can't comprehend the font size.

me too, I only managed it through the first paragraph, but it looks like something that's supposed to get you mad

[draggar]

The font was a little hard on the eyes so I did shrink it a little.

Many prisons do some of the things he does, but not all. I saw on Animal Planet about how one prison has their inmates training service / companion dogs while another has their inmates care for abandoned horses.

Great idea to not only get some work done it also teaches them valuable skills so that when (if) they get out that they have these skills they could employ with legitimate jobs as opposed to going back to crime.

[jberryhill]

This is what Sheriff Joe does to US citizens and legal residents minding their own business and doing nothing wrong whatsoever:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/...ite_detentions

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and several of his deputies are facing a lawsuit claiming they illegally arrested, transported and detained a U.S. citizen and a permanent legal resident at a worksite in Phoenix, Ariz., where deputies were conducting an immigration raid.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona filed the suit August 19 on behalf of Julian Mora, 66, and his son Julio, 19.

The incident took place on February 11, when Julio Mora was driving his dad to work. According to the suit, just 100 yards from where the elder Mora worked at landscaping business Handyman Maintenance, Inc. (HMI), a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office vehicle cut in front of pick-up truck on a busy public road, forcing Mora to slam on his brakes. Another MCSO SUV flanked the truck.

Two deputies ordered the father and son to get out. They were frisked and restrained with tight plastic zip-tie handcuffs and taken to Mora's workplace, the site of the raid. The two joined over 100 others who were corralled into an area that was said to resemble a heavily guarded armed camp with men wearing masks and carrying semi-automatic rifles.

"Their situation was extremely unique. One of the most egregious aspects to the Moras is the fact that they were not on the worksite. They were stopped and racially profiled during a routine traffic stop, then brought to the worksite. That makes it particularly more problematic and harder for the county to justify," said Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the Arizona ACLU.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, challenges the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) deputies with violating the U.S. Constitution's Fourth and the Fourteenth Amendments – which guarantee equal protection and freedom from unreasonable search and seizures and unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity and/or national origin.

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“To this day, I don’t know why the officers stopped us out of all the cars on the road. Maybe it was because of the Campesina radio station sticker on our bumper or maybe it’s because my dad was wearing his Mexican tejana [hat] and they thought we were illegal. But they never bothered to ask us,” stated the Mora.

[Raider]

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arizona filed the suit August 19.

No need to say anymore, Anything with the ACLU's name on it, has to be frivolous bullsh*t.

[jberryhill]

Ah, right... because who cares if a US citizen and a legal resident are kidnapped and hogtied.

[tres]

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.

I doubt you'll find any luxury prisons in the US. I don't have a problem with "Joe" for the most part but this "sentence" caught my eye. I'd rather have inmates at the dog shelter then the call center.

[Raider]

Ah, right... because who cares if a US citizen and a legal resident are kidnapped and hogtied.

Kidnapped? LMAO... Always exaggerating what happened to prove a point.

The ACLU has taught you well JB.

[GeoOwners]

I doubt you'll find any luxury prisons in the US. I don't have a problem with "Joe" for the most part but this "sentence" caught my eye. I'd rather have inmates at the dog shelter then the call center.

My thoughts too..what makes anyone think jails have any luxury features...lol

I know 2 people that have been in jail and neither one has any bon-bon stories.

[Adatise]

Edited.

[jberryhill]

Kidnapped? LMAO... Always exaggerating what happened to prove a point.

I'm going to guess at this point that you do not know the legal definition of kidnapping.

These guys were picked up at an intersection, and then taken to a job site where there was an immigration sweep going on. Both of these guys were lawful residents of the US and one of them was a citizen.

But, since you obviously are definition-challenged:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or asportation of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority.

Okay, so you explain it, Raider. You are saying that it is legal to forcibly detain and then transport a US citizen from a traffic stop to a work site at which they were not located, tie him up and then claim he was an illegal immigrant found at that site.

And that is not "kidnapping" as the word is understood by sane people?

That's all legal, fine and dandy. Is that really what you think?

Arpaio has racked up quite a record with a number of such stunts directed at US citizens and legal residents who happen to be (a) brown and (b) in Maricopa County.

Please, go there.

Wait, wait, don't tell me... you think the word "kidnapping" requires holding someone for ransom, and you are going to give me a legal education. Go for it.