YA GOTTA LOVE THIS SHERIFF
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>TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS ???
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>It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, 116 degrees sets 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.
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>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 Zanzo't, an inmate who
>has lived in the tents for 1-1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
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>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.
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>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 didn't commit
>any crime, so shut your damned mouth. "
>
> KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?
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YUP....I posted this a few weeks back, I don't EVER get tired of reading about my Hero JOE!
NOW.....it should be in the paper/website tomorrow, I'll post it as soon as it comes up, the inmates are NOW on a hunger strike, WHY???? They say the FOOD is bad and they DESERVE BETTER treatment...can I hear a COLLECTIVE "Ahhhh....TOO BAD?" "LOL!"
Dennis
NOW.....it should be in the paper/website tomorrow, I'll post it as soon as it comes up, the inmates are NOW on a hunger strike, WHY???? They say the FOOD is bad and they DESERVE BETTER treatment...can I hear a COLLECTIVE "Ahhhh....TOO BAD?" "LOL!"
Dennis
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