Sheriff Joe Arpaio

[camos]

Got this forwarded to me in an email and thought I'd share it with you all. He is the kind of guy we need more of.

 

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 Weinaramer 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 re-elected 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.....BUT 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."

 

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.

[saddlebum]

Don't know the guy. Never heard of the guy----But I like him already. Wish they would do things his way in our part of the country, instead of letting bleeding hearts run things.

[Guest seuadr]

he didn't actually take over the entire operation of the county's animal control, he just helped the county renovate an unused jail for an animal clinic. still pretty cool. though.

 

there is alot of random unsupported facts in that letter, which has been circulating since 2007.

 

check this out if you are a fan, more recent and published by a factual new source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/joe-arpaio-ignores-feds-w_n_248926.html

[Flyinfool]

If the feds and congress do not want illegal immigrants arrested then they have the power to remove the immigration laws from the books and just open our borders to pure chaos.

 

I hope the sheriff continues to tell the feds to stick it where the sun don't shine. It is his job to enforce ALL laws.

 

I like it.

[slick97spirit]

he didn't actually take over the entire operation of the county's animal control, he just helped the county renovate an unused jail for an animal clinic. still pretty cool. though.

 

there is alot of random unsupported facts in that letter, which has been circulating since 2007.

 

check this out if you are a fan, more recent and published by a factual new source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/joe-arpaio-ignores-feds-w_n_248926.html

 

No doubt that there is alot of fanfare and misreported facts about the guy over the years, but the fact remains that he treats criminals like criminals and not hotel guests and he doesn't look at illegals as potential votes. There is the BIG PROBLEM..... November will tell the tale.

[camos]

he didn't actually take over the entire operation of the county's animal control, he just helped the county renovate an unused jail for an animal clinic. still pretty cool. though.

 

there is alot of random unsupported facts in that letter, which has been circulating since 2007.

 

check this out if you are a fan, more recent and published by a factual new source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/31/joe-arpaio-ignores-feds-w_n_248926.html

I guess no one is perfect. There seems to be some inconsistencies at the federal level too. In the article it mentions the reason for focusing on the criminal element rather than an ordinary illegal alien has to do with resource management. Since the Sheriff Department is not federally funded why do they care that Arpaio is focusing on all who enter the US illegally, after all it is a federal law he is enforcing.

 

An unnoted inconsistency is the different focus in enforcement within the DHC between the Canadian border and the Mexican border re: the recent thread on strip searching a Canadian girl who was going to volunteer at an organic farm.

 

Fact or fiction, people who get necessary things done in an efficient manner deserve to be lauded.

 

Way-ta-go Joe!

[SilvrT]

Don't know the guy. Never heard of the guy----But I like him already. Wish they would do things his way in our part of the country, instead of letting bleeding hearts run things.

 

DITTO THAT !!!

 

Way to many "bleeding hearts" and government beaurocracy in this day and age and because of it, criminals have it way too easy and victims suffer and basically get nothing.

 

I makes me sick to read the stories in the news about poor so-and-so (the criminal).

[Jerry Zimmermann]

Guys,

HE IS DA MAN!!!

[Hummingbird]

Sheriff Joe in one of the LAST good guys with the b@lls to stand up and be counted !

 

 

My everlasting applause to him :clap2::clap2::clap2:

[Guest seuadr]

I guess no one is perfect. There seems to be some inconsistencies at the federal level too. In the article it mentions the reason for focusing on the criminal element rather than an ordinary illegal alien has to do with resource management. Since the Sheriff Department is not federally funded why do they care that Arpaio is focusing on all who enter the US illegally, after all it is a federal law he is enforcing.

 

An unnoted inconsistency is the different focus in enforcement within the DHC between the Canadian border and the Mexican border re: the recent thread on strip searching a Canadian girl who was going to volunteer at an organic farm.

 

Fact or fiction, people who get necessary things done in an efficient manner deserve to be lauded.

 

Way-ta-go Joe!

 

don't get me wrong, i think it's great, it's just kinda sad to see some of the inflated and flat out made up facts these letters take on as they shooting around the internet.

[Renne]

Facts or fiction, the saga continues to give us hope that there's justice still and MEN willing to step up to make it happen.

 

GO JOE!

 

Renne,,,not a liberal bone on my bod!

USAF Special Forces Ret.

PGR

BSMC ret.

[Jus Monkeyin Around]

Got the right idea all states should have a Joe

:clap2:

[Vance]

Seems feasible that with all the muscle, and all the 'talent' that prisons have that they could be, for the most part, self-sufficient. Inmates could earn their living, and greatly reduce the burden on taxpayers.

[Guest seuadr]

Seems feasible that with all the muscle, and all the 'talent' that prisons have that they could be, for the most part, self-sufficient. Inmates could earn their living, and greatly reduce the burden on taxpayers.

this is the thing that has always confused me.. you commit a crime against me as a member of society, and then i pay for you to go to school, get job training, and pay to feed you, and pay for you to sit around and read books and watch tv. i read somewhere that it costs something like 70,000 dollars to house an inmate in a typical situation per year. that is insane!

[Wanderer]

There is the BIG PROBLEM..... November will tell the tale.

 

Yeah, we see how that worked out in '08!