Sheriff Joe (This is TRUE)

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 Sheriff.



TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA, ARIZONA

COUNTY SHERIFF , WHERE HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.

HERE ARE SOME 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 now charges the inmates for them.

No smoking or porno magazines are allowed in the jails.

Took away the prisoners 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 also 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 and he pipes it 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, where it 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 to get there, 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.