Stuffed to the rafters and beyond
November, 30th 2006 07:18 AM
TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH 
JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA
COUNTY SHERIFF( ARIZONA ) AND HE 
KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER 
AGAIN.
 
These are some of the reasons why:
 
Sheriff Joe Arpaio 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 and cut off all but
"G" movies. 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 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 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 gonna 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. When the inmates 
complained, he told them, "This isn't the
Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't 
come back."
 
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture 
series on US history 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 
that actually tells the truth for a change
would be welcome and that it might 
even explain why 95% of the inmates 
were in his jails in the first place.
 
With temperatures being even hotter 
than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just
set a new record for June 2nd), 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 
pink boxer shorts were chatting in the 
tents, where temperatures reached 128
 degrees. "This is hell. It feels like we 
live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, 
an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to 
go. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear
 pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not
 one bit sympathetic. "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 taxpayers 
money and enjoy things many taxpayers
can't afford to have for themselves."
 
Wednesday he told all the inmates who
were complaining of the heat in the 
tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees
 in Iraq and our soldiers are living in 
tents too, and they have to walk all 
day in the sun, wearing full battle gear
and get shot at, and they have not 
committed any crimes, so shut your 
damned mouths!"
 
Way to go, Sheriff! 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.
 
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff 
in Maricopa County, Arizona
 
oops
oops
 
Nursing home 
 
An Arab-Australian family were 
considering putting their grandfather 
in a nursing home.  All the Muslim 
facilities were completely full, so they
ended up putting him in a Jewish home.
 
After a few weeks in the Jewish facility, 
they come to visit grandpa.
 
"How do you like it here?" asks the 
grandson. "It's wonderful, everyone 
here is so courteous and respectful,"
says grandpa.
 
"We're so happy for you.  We were 
worried that this was the wrong 
place for you."
 
 
"Let me tell you about how wonderfully 
they treat the residents here," 
grandpa says with a big smile.
 
 
"There's a musician here, he's 85-years 
old.  He hasn't played the violin in 20
years and everyone still calls him
'Maestro'!
 
 
And there's a physician here, 90 years 
old.  He hasn't been practicing medicine
for 25 years and everyone still calls 
him 'Doctor'!
 
 
And me, I haven't had sex for 30 years
and they still call me "The 
f*cking Arab!"
 

 

 

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