Gas taxes.

[RoadToad]

I'm with you on this one. Part of the reason there's some much less recidivism (wow, I spelled that right the first time) in other countries is that once you've been to their jail once, you won't want to go back! Here, for too many it's a place to get in shape, hang with your homies, and join a gang. I'm a social liberal, so I'd like to think of prisons as a place to rehabilitate people who have gone wrong, but "rehabilitation" in today's prisons is a joke, Most of 'em come out worse than they went in. So let's just take away their cable tv, internet access, all that extra crap they get, and give them three hots and a cot, and maybe some reading material. If prison were truly a miserable place to be, like it's supposed to be, I think we could reduce the prison population AND the crime rate. If you want to put them to work, that's fine too, but I think I'd feel more comfortable driving on a road that was built by people taking pride in their work, and getting paid well to do it, than forced labor. Let them do the more menial stuff, like mowing grass.

[zx150]

You all remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona , who painted the jail cells pink and made the inmates wear pink prison garb. Well.........



SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!



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.


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.



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 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

with 83% of the votes.

[Bobby Headrick]

We need more people like this. He seems to have a handle on things, Now if he can only keep the ACLU off his back.

[mhall]

Mr Joe is a bad man and I love it. There's a guy that should run for president right there, he has the right idea. I firmly believe when you go out and hurt innocent people on purpose doing criminal acts you have forfeited your right as a human being. To me you are now nothing more than a Rogue dangerous animal and should be convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt and Uthanized immediately if not sooner.

[Devils Horse]

Never heard of him. If this guy is real, he's a legend. What a refreshing change from the pansies kow towing to the liberal media and special interest groups we have running things now.

Dang Mark, you're a hard man. I was gonna steal me some t'maters out of your yard, but it ain't worth gettin' yuthani..er uthaniz...uh euthaniz.....put to sleep over.

[mhall]

Never heard of him. If this guy is real, he's a legend. What a refreshing change from the pansies kow towing to the liberal media and special interest groups we have running things now.

Dang Mark, you're a hard man. I was gonna steal me some t'maters out of your yard, but it ain't worth gettin' yuthani..er uthaniz...uh euthaniz.....put to sleep over.

Jim I'm really just a big ole softy ask any of my buddies. Movie the Bucket List made me cry like a teenage school girl. I'd give the shirt off my back if you asked for it or needed it. But somebody coming to take it in the middle of the night and I can get to my fort protectors and they are going horizontal permantly. I'll quit shooting when they quit quivering and not until. And you know I might be wrong but I really don't think it would even bother me I swear I don't.

[DJD]

Never heard of him. If this guy is real, he's a legend. What a refreshing change from the pansies kow towing to the liberal media and special interest groups we have running things now.

Dang Mark, you're a hard man. I was gonna steal me some t'maters out of your yard, but it ain't worth gettin' yuthani..er uthaniz...uh euthaniz.....put to sleep over.

Jim,
Thats good! You have a special talent with the keyboard my friend.

[DJD]

Mr Joe is a bad man and I love it. There's a guy that should run for president right there, he has the right idea. I firmly believe when you go out and hurt innocent people on purpose doing criminal acts you have forfeited your right as a human being. To me you are now nothing more than a Rogue dangerous animal and should be convicted beyond a shadow of a doubt and Uthanized immediately if not sooner.

Mark,
I love the way you think! Old Joe is catching alot of flack from the politico's in Arizona but he is standing strong.