[Humor] SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!

[Decibel!]

Maricopa County(AZ) 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 Done' kind of Sheriff.


To those of you not familiar with Joe Arpaio, he is the Maricopa county
Arizona sheriff and he keeps getting elected over and over this is one
of the reasons why:

It was 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 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 damned
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.