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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
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.'

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.

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.

Sheriff Joe was recently re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona