Posted on 04/09/2017 11:35:40 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
The outdoor jail that was Mr. Arpaios marquee undertaking was a travesty. Ostensibly established to save money and deter criminals, who presumably would want to avoid sweltering in desert heat, it failed on both counts. In fact, closing the encampment will save taxpayers some $4.5 million annually. And in a recent study, the inmates there said they preferred the facility, the heat notwithstanding, to the cramped cells in conventional jails.
In announcing that the encampment would be closed, after 24 years, Mr. Arpaios successor, Paul Penzone, a Democrat, said, Starting today, the circus ends, and the tents come down.
Mr. Arpaios MO was humiliation and intimidation. Furious at the federal lawsuit targeting him, he struck back at President Barack Obama, becoming one of the leading voices of the birther movement and deploying a team of investigators to Hawaii with the intent of proving that the presidents birth certificate was somehow concocted. That failed.
Sensing the political advantage in harassing immigrants, he launched sweeps in Hispanic neighborhoods, making his office and the deputies who worked for him agents for racial profiling. The sweeps continued for more than a year after a federal judge ordered them halted, as Mr. Arpaio expressed his contempt for the judges authority.
In the end, Mr. Arpaio was passed over for various prominent jobs for which he was said to have been a candidate in the Trump administration. Finally, it is the sheriff who has been humiliated, and rightly so.
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Nah; you always gotta know what the enemy is up to.
This is nothing but a Soros liberal gloating hit piece. They do not have a clue as to Joe’s character. He is not swayed in the slightest with his Soros’ orchestrated defeat in the last election. He proudly wears the commie liberal attacks as his badge of courage. He knows true right from wrong, truth versus fictional BS. Just as heat tempers steel, Joe’s spine only gets harder each time it is dipped into the crucible.
**** “But when McCains number comes up, the line will stretch to the New Mexico border!” ****
Line will que up at the Hole but I figure it will snake around from Sea to Shining Sea with a bunch of bends in Texas.
Cheap Beer Concession is going to break records, may have to build Railways, Highways, Runways and New Ports just to keep up with the demand. Instead of the Gold Rush it will be the Yellow Rush.
By the way ... has Jimmah Carter died yet? You really have to plan ahead.
Satire
Big city jails suck
Often worse than even serious penitentiary
There is no order and things are very fluid with little or no outside time
I understand exactly why they loved the tents
What you described in a Swedish prison
I do think the Florence Colorado AMAX United States end of the lone prison underground cells are large but they are no human contact boxes
For decades....
In fact, closing the encampment will save taxpayers some $4.5 million annually.
Nah. McLame will be buried at Arlington, where guards will keep the bladder brigade away from his headstone.
Take a jar of urine in your pocket instead and pour it out.
How does a tent city cost 4.5 million extra to operate? Even when they tear it down, the inmates still have to be housed, fed and clothed.
They will save nothing
And when these fools’ are overrun with thugs, Sheriff Joe will laugh last.
Joe is doing just fine, folks. I post to him every day.
Thanks for that update, SJB. The nitwits at the WaPo Editorial Board don’t care that the Sheriff started his career coming back from the Korean War to protect the citizens of Wash. DC as a beat cop back in 1954...when I was 4 years old...and I am a geezer myself, now!
When one considers that Obama put his attack dog Holder on Joe less than 2 weeks after taking office, I’d say they haven’t gotten anywhere in 8 years : )
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