Take a tough line in prisons

01/02/2007

Joe Arpaio is the Maricopa County Sheriff in Arizona, Texas, he keeps getting elected over and over again. I suggest these are some of the reasons why:

He created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment. He says: "they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave."

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he couldn't get sued for discrimination. BRILLIANT!

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 allows the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel, he replied: "so these morons will know how hot it's going to be while they are working on my chain gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money, and when the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."

Joe Arpaio says: "Criminals should be punished for their crimes not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on tax payers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves."

If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of prison spaces in the UK!

P Honey