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Posted on 04/04/2017 4:44:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Maricopa County’s new sheriff announced Tuesday that he’s shutting down a complex of jail tents that helped make his predecessor, Joe Arpaio, a national law enforcement figure.
Paul Penzone said at a news conference that the nearly 24-year-old Tent City complex will be closing in 45 to 60 days.
Arpaio opened the complex in August 1993 as a way of easing jail overcrowding. The barbed-wire-surrounded compound was part of a broader campaign by Arpaio to enact get-tough measures in his jails, such as banning cigarettes, creating inmate chain gangs and dressing them in old-time striped prison uniforms.
Closing Tent City complex would undo a critical piece of Arpaio’s six-term political legacy. Penzone, who defeated the 84-year-old Arpaio in November, is already phasing out his predecessor’s practice of making inmates wear pink underwear. …
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Hey, they knew what they were voting for.
Won’t the Locals be so happy? They voted for this Ass.
Hope they survive to vote again.
Too many hand-wringing migrants from CA.
I spent a cool night in those tents once.
AMA
Prediction: increased inmate housing costs for the taxpayers; more inmates returning to prison after they are released; increase in property and personal attack crimes throughout greater Phoenix. Why fix what is not broke?
Because Penzone. And Penzone is not Arpaio.
I learned at an early age that the taste of dirt and grass while your face was being rubbed in it sucks. These morons that voted for sympathy for CrimeAnimals obviously are snowflake pussys.
You fight or suffer the crimes of the evil. You fight until you die or die anyway. These retards do not care about their offspring.
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Any bets on how long before they need a millage increase to pay for Jail expansion?
Maroons and Idjits!
Penzone refers to illegals as “guests”. He makes me sick.
I like Arpaio a lot. Somewhere along the line he should have trained a replacement, and allowed that person to take over.
We all have to stand down at some point. Let a younger guy in there who will follow your methods.
At 84, Sheriff Joe was due some rest. It came down to him and some other younger guy, and the voters bought off on the new guy.
I’m sure it’s a big mistake, but Joe could have made his side a better alternative to the new guy too.
Not mentioned in the article, but Joe Arpaio’s troubles are not over.
“Arpaio is charged with one count of criminal contempt for failing to stop enforcing federal immigration law after he was ordered to do so by a federal judge. The case stems from a long-running racial profiling case presided over by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow.
“Snow has already found Arpaio and three of his aides in civil contempt for violating his orders in the case, and forwarded the criminal matter over to U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. A finding of criminal contempt would mean that Arpaio willfully, rather than unintentionally, defied a judge’s orders.
“Arpaio’s criminal-contempt trial will now begin April 25.”
I spent a cool night in those tents once.
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I have a friend who spent 8 months there, awaiting trial, where she was found not guilty. I’m glad they are gone, along with publicity hound sheriff Joe.
Let’s see if the people of Maricopa County are as safe under the new guy as they were under Arpaio.
A big thanks to Joe and his men and women for doing their job in protecting the honest, decent citizens there.
Not supposed to be in the tents until you are found guilty & sentenced. That’s what Joe always said: “These people did the crime so they get the tents. Not any worse than what our soldiers are liven in in Iraq”
Trump needs to pardon him from this Obama vendetta. Joe was out early for Trump in August 2015
I have a TON of contempt for a great many judges and bad laws in this country as well.
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