Thread: Update on Joe Arpaio

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 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 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-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. If you agree, pass this on. If not, just delete it.
Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Thanks for this, Tex! I copied it and emailed it to all my friends. I also emailed it to my own county sheriff! Sheesh, we need to clone this guy!

God Bless Sherrif Joe. Just another reason for me to love this guy!

I love this guy. He has intestinal fortitude. Too bad our representatives don't have it. OK some do like Sessions but for the most part they are corrupt.

I wish the Sheriff of our county was like Joe. Maybe we would be able to get something done. We have prisoners from the county jail picking up litter and doing yard work along the highways. Every bit helps and it does look better.

I think they should be out picking the rotten fruit that the farmers says we have.

Way to go Sheriff Joe! Prison should be a place like hell not a luxury hotel.

I think every state has so many illegals in prison we could have them pick the fruit. Hey remember the movie "Cool Hand Luke"

"What we have here is a failure to communicate." Like talking to Vicente Fox and our congress.

Thanks Tex for bringing this update on Sheriff Joe. He sure is a hero -- to bad congress doesn't pay more attention to what this man does and what he stands for. We need a few more million like him.
Its ironic that the ALCU goes after some one like Sheriff Joe instead of the real criminals. Who's side are they on anyway? Such hypocrisy!
Way to go Sheriff Joe -- America needs you!!

Thanks!!!!

I pasted this to an email, cleaned it up, and sent it to everyone in my address book.

Now, that man is a thinker and a problem solver.

Psalm 139:14