All of our Prisons should be run like this

richpblaze

Registered User
I really love that Sheriff Joe!

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 ag o, 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 ho tline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a "Git-R Dun" kind of Sheriff.



Update on Joe Arpaio

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 ails.

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-Is sued
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
< U>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.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.

Sheriff Joe
was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.
 
I remember a few years back Sherriff Joe started building a "Tower of Trash" across the Highway from Arizona Mills Mall. Filled it with all the trash that his Chain Gangs collected. Somthing like 40 feet at the Base and like 60 feet high when he decided to take it down cuz' People were getting into accidents while looking at it on their way home.

Agree 100%
 

greenjeep

Cause it's green, duh!
Location
Moab Local!
A couple of facts wrong about the animal shelter situation according to Snopes (HERE), but otherwise, that is the greatest thing I've heard in a long time!!!!!!
 

waynehartwig

www.jeeperman.com
Location
Mead, WA
Agree!

When I was being jailed for stupid **** (driving on suspended license and 20), we had to work. They didn't care where, so obviously the better jobs were always taken with a line waiting for someone to leave or get fired. I started out in the animal shelter cleaning cages and caring for the animals. My last position was at the fairgrounds doing grounds maintenance. We were not allowed any drugs or smokes in jail (not that it kept them out, but it was hard), but at work we could have the smokes - even have a family member/friend bring them to our jobsite and give to the person in charge to give to us. We were all strip searched when brought back. We were not paid for our work and we slept in an old metal bunk house (the half round metal things - quansa hut). We did get 1hr off our sentence for every hour we worked, though. The animal shelter was a 7x10 day a week gig, but the fair grounds was only 5x8. So those of us working there, would pick up trash on the roads for the weekend gigs. The shelter job kinda sucked, but sure used up all of your time. The fairgrounds gig was sweet, driving tractors and lawn mowers, checking out the 'Betties' during the fair. We had cable TV in the dining area and it was only open at certain times. We were given sandwiches at lunch and hot breakfast and dinners. If you didnt like what was on the menu, you starved. When I went in, I didn't care for mustard. But all of our sack lunches came with mustard only. You could either eat the dry bread and meat sandwich, or you could add the mustard to help liven it up a bit. I now like mustard. I considered it hell, and never went back.
 

KWight

Active Member
My cousin was in there on drug charges a little over a year ago. He was in a different place at first, then sent to Tent City after sneaking a sandwich for a late night snack. He got tired of the Tent City jail and has been doing better ever since. That kind of justice can go a long way in reducing recidivism in the offenders.

Kevin

Agree!

When I was being jailed for stupid **** (driving on suspended license and 20), we had to work. They didn't care where, so obviously the better jobs were always taken with a line waiting for someone to leave or get fired. I started out in the animal shelter cleaning cages and caring for the animals. My last position was at the fairgrounds doing grounds maintenance. We were not allowed any drugs or smokes in jail (not that it kept them out, but it was hard), but at work we could have the smokes - even have a family member/friend bring them to our jobsite and give to the person in charge to give to us. We were all strip searched when brought back. We were not paid for our work and we slept in an old metal bunk house (the half round metal things - quansa hut). We did get 1hr off our sentence for every hour we worked, though. The animal shelter was a 7x10 day a week gig, but the fair grounds was only 5x8. So those of us working there, would pick up trash on the roads for the weekend gigs. The shelter job kinda sucked, but sure used up all of your time. The fairgrounds gig was sweet, driving tractors and lawn mowers, checking out the 'Betties' during the fair. We had cable TV in the dining area and it was only open at certain times. We were given sandwiches at lunch and hot breakfast and dinners. If you didnt like what was on the menu, you starved. When I went in, I didn't care for mustard. But all of our sack lunches came with mustard only. You could either eat the dry bread and meat sandwich, or you could add the mustard to help liven it up a bit. I now like mustard. I considered it hell, and never went back.
 

MattL

Well-Known Member
Location
Erda
I fully agree with this.
Give people a reason to be better citizens. Can you imagine tent city in lets say Alaska or Nevada?

I also think the whole pet thing is a good system.

Going on a limb here, so thoughts on this please.

Could the inmates with non violent behavior be upgraded to retirement facilities with elderly, for those in need of help. Lots of risk on this one. I do know that most of the old people i know or have known were hard workers in the earlier years. Examples of hard times to those that take things for granted might be of benefit to today's society.
 
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