SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN! 
 
Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe! 

Maricopa County  was spending approximately $18 million dollars a year on stray cats and dogs.

Sheriff Joe offered to take over the department, 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 dog in a prisoners care is taken out and walked twice daily.

Sheriff Joe 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. 

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.' 


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 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.