Sheriff Joe Arpaio

"OF THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY
SHERIFF( ARIZONA ) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from
spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He has jail meals down to 90 cents a serving and charges the inmates for
them.
He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away their
weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says:
"they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they
can assault innocent people when they leave."
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and
city projects and save taxpayer's money.
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 allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.
When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons will
know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs."
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore
a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them,
"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he
pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture
series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that
actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might
even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first
place.
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees
just set a new record for June 2nd), 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 pink boxer shorts were chatting in
the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is hell. It
feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for
2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna
sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished
for their crimes -not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only to
go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on
taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have for
themselves."
Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in
the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are
living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing
full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any
crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be a lot
less crime and we would not be in the current position of running out of
prison spaces.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J4Z6AqWZ4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0oqik88NYk

Kann die Meinung absolut nicht teilen.
Resozialisierung is was anderes...

Und der Vergleich mit den Soldaten is ja einfach nur lächerlich.

ich finds völlig in ordnung .... hallo die sind in einem US gefängnis .... man kann doch nicht erwarten das das gefängnis die sprache der gefangenen lernt oder ?
BTW is sicher billiger die gefangen zu unterrichten als die wärter

achja und nochwas ... den vergleich mit einem KZ is imho eher eine beleidigung für jeden der sich im 2WK in einem KZ befand.
Ich bin mir sicher jeder KZ häftlich hätte sofort und freudestrahlend in dieses gefängnis gelaufen.

Ich seh keinen Sinn darin, die Haftbedingungen möglichst schlecht zu gestalten. Nur weils jemandem in der Haft unnötig schwer gemacht wird (Hitze, Demütigung usw.), wird er nicht von seinen kriminellen Ambitionen "geheilt" - eher im Gegenteil!

Der Vergleich mit einem Konzentrationslager ist wirklich falsch, immerhin passierte in den deutschen Konzentrationslagern industriell organisierter Massenmord.

Joe Arpaio ist aber symptomatisch für gewisse Tendenzen in den USA. Einigen dort ist der Rechtsstaat ein lästiges Übel, das man umgehen bzw. ausschalten muss wo es nur geht (siehe Guantanamo!).

lg tosca

Zitat von 22zaphod22

na wenns eh nur das ist ... das ist wirklich schlimm für einen menschen - totale trennung von sozialen kontakten - keine freiheit ... dass du dann auf deinen paar m² wixen oder fernsehen kannst macht die geschichte meiner meinung nach nicht wirklich besser

totale trennung von sozialen kontakten ? lol woher hast denn das ?
manche gefangen dürfen sogar ganz normal ihrer arbeit nachgehen .... was das mit totaler trennung von sozialen kontakten gleich haben soll musst mir jetzt erklähren.