[oneastrix]

Subject: Now, this is perspective!!!!!!



Hot Enough for You?
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It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports:
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>>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 you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
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Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long
ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths."

Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?

[whirlwind]

ive heard of this sheriff before and god bless him! perhaps if the jails aint better than the homes the criminals have theyll try to stay home instead of commiting crimes!

[PAPA G]

i wonder how he got around all the liberal roadblocks, etc. to me its an excellent time to work on their sun tans

Sheriff Joe is pretty cool. He was a republican, but he supported a democrap for Governor and she won. That left me a little bitter. But as far as how he runs things as Sheriff, hats off to him!

[Stewart]

Now that's a **** good answer to their complaints!

[Rave]

Very good answer indeed!

[Sniper[MI]]

As the theme song for Baretta went, "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.."

To bad Robert Blake didn't listen to the theme music for his own show, huh?

[Snakebite]

Sherrif Joe has a lot of support for his treatment of prisoners. I aint one of them.

Yes I know they are criminals and yes, they need punishment for their crimes. To be politically correct, its called rehabilitation.

If you havent ever been in the heat of the desert then it may sound like good punishment. To me its inhumane. Imagine 1 1/2 years living in a tent in the desert. Its an overcrowded tent at that. Many think Arpaio has gone too far.

I have talked to people that have been there. They NEVER want to go back so I guess thats good but....and this is the scary part...they would like revenge on the fool that put them through this. Most of the people in tent city are petty criminals and DUI's. A rapist gets airconditiong. It aint right.

[Bert24b]

Yeah, you've got some good points there. Security around a bunch of tents in the middle of the desert can't be that good, so they're not going to put any hardened criminals out there. Does a guy that got caught shoplifting for the 2nd time, or somebody that had one too many beers before driving home really deserve that? It's easy to say "They're criminals, they deserve the worst of anything they get", but nothing good ever comes of a punishment that doesn't fit the crime. One small slip and it could be any of us out there in those tents. (well if we live in that state)

-Bert

[Klaus]

Yeah Snakebite, it would suck if criminals did not want to go back to prison.

[tommy]

ok you talk like the guy driving under the influence was not doing anything wrong. but what would happen if the cops would not have stopped him and he would have went another mile or two down the road and killed you'er kid or some one else. maybe he will think twice about getting behind the wheel of a car drunk.

prisoners have it too easy these days cable tv ac/heat dr's care.they get better care then most of us on the outside.
why not make it hard for them make them think about what they did .maybe they will have alot less repeat offenders if we were alot more tougher on them.i say put some chains on thier legs and put them in the trash dumps picking out the plastic's and the other stuff we can recycle.put them to work.bring back the chian gangs.

[NRAJOE]

I got two words for ya: Russian Gulag! :right:

[oneastrix]

I started the thread. So I guess I'll add to it.

Our soldiers are living in those tents under roughly the same conditions. "Oh but they volunteered..." Welp. if ya ask me, a criminal volunteered for jail. If that's the jail in Maricopa County then I would sure think twice about sometings before I did them.

Good point you made there Klaus.

Rehabilitaion my *****......I don't know why they waste there time with that term in ciminal justice.

[colt45]

lets put this guy in the next election.