an arrest...

[SmokinDVM]

Holy Shit...I agree with everything Barry says on this post.

I thought I saw something with a curly tail fly past my window.

[WhiteWidow]

From wikipedia:

Joe Arpaio has frequently been referred to as America's Toughest Sheriff.

Upon his initial election as sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992, Arpaio immediately began instituting changes at county jails.

He began to serve inmates surplus food, reducing meal costs to 40 cents per day [1]. He has banned coffee (for having no nutritional value), smoking, and porno magazines. He has removed the weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. The cable TV system (which is mandated by court order), has but two stations, the Disney Channel and the Weather Channel.

Inmates are issued pink underwear as part of their uniforms and all guards use pink handcuffs.

He has also set up the Tent City as a modification of the Maricopa County Jail. As it becomes crowded, more tents are set up. As temperatures climbed well past 100 during the summer of 2003, Arpaio said to complaining 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![2]"

Arpaio has instituted a program for inmates to study while in jail and to try to recover from drug abuse. This program is named Hard Knocks High, which is the only approved high school program in any American jail. Another jail program, called ALPHA, is aimed solely at getting inmates away from drug abuse. Community projects include bicycle registration, block watch, child identification and fingerprinting, Operation Identification for marking valuables, Operation Notification which identifies business owners during times of emergency, Project Lifeline which provides free cellular phones to domestic violence victims, S.T.A.R.S. (Sheriff’s Teaching Abuse Resistance to Students), and an annual summer camp for kids near Payson.


This guy sounds pretty cool to me. Except the pink underwear that seems kind of gay.

[SmokinDVM]

From wikipedia:

Joe Arpaio has frequently been referred to as America's Toughest Sheriff.

Upon his initial election as sheriff of Maricopa County in 1992, Arpaio immediately began instituting changes at county jails.

He began to serve inmates surplus food, reducing meal costs to 40 cents per day [1]. He has banned coffee (for having no nutritional value), smoking, and porno magazines. He has removed the weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. The cable TV system (which is mandated by court order), has but two stations, the Disney Channel and the Weather Channel.

Inmates are issued pink underwear as part of their uniforms and all guards use pink handcuffs.

He has also set up the Tent City as a modification of the Maricopa County Jail. As it becomes crowded, more tents are set up. As temperatures climbed well past 100 during the summer of 2003, Arpaio said to complaining 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![2]"

Arpaio has instituted a program for inmates to study while in jail and to try to recover from drug abuse. This program is named Hard Knocks High, which is the only approved high school program in any American jail. Another jail program, called ALPHA, is aimed solely at getting inmates away from drug abuse. Community projects include bicycle registration, block watch, child identification and fingerprinting, Operation Identification for marking valuables, Operation Notification which identifies business owners during times of emergency, Project Lifeline which provides free cellular phones to domestic violence victims, S.T.A.R.S. (Sheriff’s Teaching Abuse Resistance to Students), and an annual summer camp for kids near Payson.


This guy sounds pretty cool to me. Except the pink underwear that seems kind of gay.

I doubt he thought up any of those programs himself. I met the man before, when I was living in the Phoenix area, and he has an IQ of around 6.

[WhiteWidow]

I doubt he thought up any of those programs himself. I met the man before, when I was living in the Phoenix area, and he has an IQ of around 6.

Maybe so, but I still like the way his jail is run. Especially when you consider people like:

39 Arrests
27 Felonies
15 Violent Felonies
4 Open Felony cases
2 Parole Violation Warrants
2 Felony Bench Warrants................this is the guys record

lives in the projects
collects welfare