This is how it should be in SA

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(I got this article emailed to me a while back and though I'll share it with the forum) ;)

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 .
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Saw this article already. Went to go google for more info; apparently, his fellow countrymen is not too pleased with him.
 
He knows how to run a prison, it's a pity he's not famous and well known.
 
well there's some good ideas there, especially the chain gang workers :D
I've often wondered why we don't have that here.... the city council says theres no munny to clean up the streets, and other neccesary services that need to be done, to improve life for all the good people in the land, yet we have overful jails full of capable workers, who, as it is, owe some debt to society.
Maybe the wardens aren't capable of keeping these SOBs from escape, ...which we have seen evidence of regularly. But thats not really a good excuse, surely it's gotta be cheaper to have proper restraining measures (like the chains :D , or new electronic watchdog bracelets) than to have taxpayer munny spent to do a lotta work that these guys can do.
This thing about just releasing prisoners without any punishment coz the jails are full makes no sense to me.
Free food and lodging, no work to have to do.... as the man says: thats luxuries many law abiding citizens (especially in SA) don't even get.
 
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brilliant
make them suffer
make them WORK, build roads, dams, dig ditches, farm
make them use as little as possible of the tax payers money
 
CeeBee said:
well there's some good ideas there, especially the chain gang workers :D
I've often wondered why we don't have that here.... the city council says theres no munny to clean up the streets, yet we have overful jails full of capable workers, who, as it is, owe some debt to society.
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And here is your answer :p


marine1 said:
Nice, can you imagine if he tried that here? Cosatu and the SACP would start a war probably. :D
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criminals should have no rights...

i've got an idead, build moerse treadwheels in the prisons, like those wheels mice run on, make the prisoners run on them and generate electricity...help Eskom out..
 
protzkrog said:
criminals should have no rights...

i've got an idead, build moerse treadwheels in the prisons, like those wheels mice run on, make the prisoners run on them and generate electricity...help Eskom out..
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now there's an idea! Mr Eishkom, you keep telling us u don't got munny for powerstations...
this way they can't just escape, they get their exercise, and coz they loose weight they'll need less food.

Cosatu & SACP revolt against prisoner labour... I wonder, would they be so blind, not to see that they would now get the services they're complaining about, and it would reduce their municipal account? :confused:
... no comment :rolleyes:
 
The reason COSATU would revolt is that they won't be able to collect membership fees from the prisoners.:D
 
He's got some awesome ideas. It really is a pity South Africa's constitution will not allow any of that to take place.
 
The reason COSATU would revolt is that they won't be able to collect membership fees from the prisoners.

jip... back to the leadership... they get all the munny.
the sheep on the ground not realising they actually lose out on some good deals, which can improve their own lives, not that of the leaders :confused:
 
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