Sheriff Joe Knows His Stuff !
- From: "Nixon.D" <nixon.d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:05 -0400
Subject: FW: Sheriff Joe Is At It Again
Love this guy!
Subject: FW: Sheriff Joe Is At It Again
Atta boy Joe!
Maricopa County, Arizona was spending approx. $18 million dollars a
year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe Arpaio
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 Wemeriner 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.
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. These are some of the reasons why:
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. He took away
their weights and 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 he 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.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in phoenix (116
degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports that
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."
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who long ago started making his prisoners wear
pink an d 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 jails and 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.
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