Sheriff revels in female chain gang's misery

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | November 1, 2003 | By Alan Elsner in Phoenix, Arizona

[blackie]

"Father Bill Wack, a young Catholic priest, was waiting for them. He does not particularly appreciate having the chain gang help with the burials. "It's free labour and it's undignified. How is this helping to rehabilitate anyone?" he said."

What a dunce this guy is ~ they are paying for being criminals ~ you get in a 12 Step to be rehabilitated.

[evets]

Trick or treat?

[Hacksaw]

Father Bill Wack, a young Catholic priest, was waiting for them. He does not particularly appreciate having the chain gang help with the burials. "It's free labour and it's undignified. How is this helping to rehabilitate anyone?" he said.

My cousin.

[ErnBatavia]

I actually saw one of those groups when in Phoenix a year and a half ago...they were doing curb and gutter cleaning in the industrial area I was visiting. I really wanted to snap a picture, but the two bull dykes in charge looked a bit heftier than their charges.

[adam_az]

I just thought I would let some of you know where Sherriff Joe stood in AZ during our last election.

During the last elections, Joe Arpaio supported the DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE Janet "Reno" Napolitano, who is now our Governess.

She's trying to institute a tax on services, and other new taxes to the tune of $800 MILLION a year sucked from our economy.

I'm fine with the chain gangs. The inmates volunteer for the gig.

[gd124]

awaiting trial because they could not raise bail.

Unacceptable.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Edited out of the Sydney story***They wear pink underwear and black and white striped uniforms. Around 2,000 inmates live in tents under the blazing Arizona sun in temperatures which last summer often exceeded 120 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in mid-October, it was over 100 degrees.

"I got meal costs down to 40 cents a day per inmate. It costs $1.15 a day to feed the department's dogs. Now, I'm cutting prisoners' calories from 3,000 to 2,500 a day," the sheriff said during a recent tour of his tent city.

"Do you hear me?" he asked the inmates who surrounded him. "You're too fat. I'm taking away your food because I'm trying to help you. I'm on a diet myself. You eat too much fat."

Several prisoners told Arpaio they often received rotten food. "The cheese is old. The meat has green spots. And the heat kills you," said Tom Silha, 42, serving nine months for fraud.

Arpaio told him he didn't care. "If you don't like it, don't come back," he said. But jail spokeswoman Lisa Allen McPherson said that 60 percent of inmates did in fact come back for more than one term.

……….Father Bill Wack, a young Catholic priest, and Sister Mary Ruth Dittman, were waiting for them. The first body was that of a baby, in a tiny white casket, who did not even have a name.

Wack said a prayer for the baby and Dittman recited the 23rd Psalm while some of the women silently wept. Then, they filled in the grave and moved on to the next body.

Altogether, the women laid to rest six people, including two babies. Jets from a nearby military base continuously blasted overhead, interrupting the brief prayers.

"I was thinking as they lowered that casket into the ground, 'Where is the mother of this child?"' said Defonda McInelly, serving eight months for check forgery.

"I think about my son, Chaz. He is 3. I miss him immensely. I don't have him come and visit me in here. He knows that mommy is in jail and I don't want him to see mommy for half an hour through a glass window and then be dragged away."

………."I use it for deterrence to fight crime. I put them right on the street where everyone can see them. If a kid asks his mother, she can tell them this is what happens to people who break the law," he said.

………….Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch said Arpaio was clearly unfamiliar with or did not care about international treaties that set human rights standards binding on all U.S. officials. "These laws prohibit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, yet Arpaio takes great pride in subjecting prisoners to degrading treatment," she said. ***

[R. Scott]

Really! All the movies about women in prison show Playboy Bunny type women.

[R. Scott]

How could a leftist rag possibly decry Women’s Equality?

[R. Scott]

Much better picture!

[adam_az]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012071/posts?page=45#45

Joe is the leftist, he supported the Rat for Governor, last election cycle. She won, we are now facing $800 million in higher taxes. (Not to mention the minor indignities she's made us suffer so far)

[mjay]

Note that this article is the usual liberal mentality.
I'm "familiar" with county jails, and this article chooses
not to emphasize that the inmates VOLUNTEERED for this
"humiliation". When my girlfriend was serving time, she
was stoked to get the "off compound" work crew even though
she would be seen in public in uniform pulling weeds and the
like, cuz she said it was the best job at the jail--"you
get out into the real world, rather than being locked stuck
behind razor wire all the time.."...and she said all the
girls thought this "humiliation" was the best job at the
jail. OK, my girlfriend wasn't chained (Cal does not have
chain gangs yet), but she was an obvious inmate, in public, & she, as these, thought she had BEST jail job till the
liberal writer says she should be humiliated!

[mjay]

Two things....the "humiliation" is the picture by Reuters.
My girlfriend--who looks like Sara in the picture--WOULD
have been humiliated to have Reuters publish her PICTURE!

And, to answer what I think was your question---most of
these county inmates will be in for minor drug busts, repeat
drunk driving, probation violations like flunking a drug
test, shoplifting, bad checks on a small scale. BUT, then
again, it's questionable if you want state prison lifers
out in public even if they are chained due to escape risk...
naturally these assignments are for minor criminals who
can't seem to obey jail rules...

[mjay]

just saw your comment again....note the picture of the
girls weeping posted in here...they could do a movie! The
press of course chose the best looking girls on the crew to
generate more sympathy.

And, my girlfriend says her work crew jailtime was much
better than her last jail time some months back when she was
just celled inside....so no wonder these inmates volunteer!

[Nam Vet]

Looks like NONE of them are UNderfed!

Nam Vet