Too Hot For Arizona Convicts

[LadyFish]

It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports:<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has<br />lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."<br /><br />Sheriff 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."<br /><br />KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?

 

[jim phillips]

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Two thumbs up for sheriff Joe

 

[ehenry]

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In my honest opinion they need to bring back the chain gangs that cleaned off the fence rows, ditch banks and spread gravel behind a hot tar truck. Prisoners have no idea what it was like to be incarcerated 40 to 50 years ago. Prison of any kind wheather it be city, county, state or federal needs to be as miserable as it can be made. I don't believe we'd have as many repeat offenders as we do.

 

[LadyFish]

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I wholeheartedly agree ef.

 

[DJ]

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Hooray!!!!! For Sherriff Joe.<br /><br />He is a local hero with an 85% approval rating.<br /><br />They're thinking about "Tent City-2"!

 

[LadyFish]

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It kinda reminded me of the following email I received the other day........<br /><br />Work vs Prison:<br /><br />IN PRISON...you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell.<br />AT WORK...you spend the majority of your time in a 6X8 cubicle.<br /><br />IN PRISON...you get three meals a day.<br />AT WORK...you only get a break for one meal and you pay for it.<br /><br />IN PRISON...you get time off for good behaviour.<br />AT WORK...you get more work for good behaviour.<br /><br />IN PRISON...the guard locks and unlocks all the doors for you.<br />AT WORK...you must carry around a security card and open all the doors for yourself.<br /><br />IN PRISON...you can watch TV and play games.<br />AT WORK...you get fired for watching TV and playing games.<br /><br />IN PRISON...you get your own toilet.<br />AT WORK...you have to share with some idiot who pees on the seat.<br /><br />IN PRISON...they allow your family and friends to visit.<br />AT WORK...you can't even speak to your family.<br /><br />IN PRISON...all expenses are paid by the taxpayers with no work required.<br />AT WORK...you get to pay all the expenses to go to work and then they deduct taxes from your salary to pay for prisoners.<br /><br />IN PRISON...you must deal with sadistic wardens.<br />AT WORK...they are called managers.

 

[JGREGORY]

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So True!!

 

[SeaMasterZ@aol.com]

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I would love to know the reincarceration rate in ol Joe's district<br /><br />maaaaan sh!t, mah azz BAKIN holmes!<br /><br />thuggin aint fun when you is gonna be a roasted eggplant in pink, betcha flippin burgers looks REAL good after a stay in Camp Joe ... lets send all the repeat offenders from the major cities out to Camp Joe<br /><br />bet that heat plays helll with the petroleum jelly too, LOLOL<br /><br />

 

[FLATHEAD]

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I say round up all the violent criminals and make them pedal bicycles or walk treadmills hooked up to generate electricity,,, run them in two 12 hour shifts.<br /><br /> We need more guys like sheriff Joe

 

[revertmastec]

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Flathead,<br /><br /> Would that help the power outages?

 

[bubbakat]

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They deserve what they get.<br />hip hip hip for the sheriff<br /><br />

 

[miloman]

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I have always thought that if you break the law and are put in prison you should do hard time to many prison is the best life they have ever had it is totally wrong lock em up make them do hard time and never mind all the nonsense way to go Joe

 

[Scoop]

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I can say my brother-in-laws commander in Iraq did confirm that they were living in 120 degree heat for over a month before the air con was installed in the tents.