I need to be sailing

I was going to post this as a reply on Flotilla but decided to put it here instead

I’ll just link to it, as I felt it was out of topic on the original subject.

SHERIFF JOE

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 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

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.’

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.

Swiped from lindaR

But have not got around to it in my busy schedule. This will probably be a slow work in progress.

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