Strange-—a colder climate than Maricopa County, Arizona buys tents & puts them up for the homeless with taxpayer $$$$$, and the same people think that Sheriff Joe Arpaio putting prisoners into tents in MUCH warmer Arizona is wrong.
Joe bought military surplus tents, and he fed oatmeal, PB & J sandwiches, etc. He dyed the men’s underwear PINK so they would not walk out of prison with 8 pairs on their bodies. He got targeted for having ‘chain gangs’-—yes, real chain gangs who broke rocks-—for only the male prisoners.
SOOOO- (you guessed it), Sheriff Joe had women on chain gangs within a day.
I love Sheriff Joe. Between him & Sheriff David Clarke, we certainly could use clones of both of them.
He also saved Maricopa County $$$ by folding the Animal Control facilities into the Sheriff’s department. The most trusted prisoners took care of the animals in the shelters while they were in custody.
NO labor costs—NO union benefits-—a real win-win-win-win, etc. IIRC, those who were on such animal shelter details were very low in recidivism rates.
I have family in Phoenix. They went to a parade and saw floats and stuff. They were towards the end of the parade. They began to hear a slight roar that got increasingly louder. When the roar was the loudest they saw what the cause was. Sheriff Joe was on a float and everyone was cheering him very loudly.