Subject: Sheriff Joe


Sheriff Joe Arpieo (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT !!:
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 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 cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.
When the inmates complained, he told them.....this is a good
one......"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't
come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' 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.

You have to love this guy!!

More on the AZ Sheriff.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116
degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports:

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 1/2 years. "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 damned mouths."