Dear Tamara,
I'll venture to make a couple of rebuttal comments on your weenie
liberal thoughts. :)
I'll venture to make -- a weenie liberal -- one... :)
Nor is any kind of educational program. WIthout education, chances
are that those guys, once released, will go out and do the only
thing they know how to do -- commit more crimes.
The Sheriff has launched rehabilitative programs like “Hard Knocks
High,” the only accredited high school under a Sheriff in an American
jail, and ALPHA, an anti-substance-abuse program.
4) This has to be a minimum security prison. A tent city with
nothing but barbed wire keeping the inmates separate from the rest
of the world worked fine in the wilds of Siberia, where, if you
escaped, you froze to death before you reached a community where
you could do damage.
The Sheriff's prison is out in Florence, AZ. If you look at a map,
Florence is out in the middle of the desert, albeit that civilization
is moving his way. It is not a couple of strands of barbed wire for
a fence. There is a chain link fence maybe 15 or more feet high
with the rolled razor wire around the top. Then there are the
guards. Who have guns. 'nuff said on that one.
If you want further information about the tents, you could write to
Glen Campbell - the Rhinestone Cowboy - as he spent some time in
Sheriff Joe's tent city awhile ago for DUI and making a real nuisance
of himself. Glen served his time and then on the last day had a mini
concert for the inmates because Sheriff Joe ask him if he would
entertain them. I think Sheriff said to the press something like
"it's not like they are going to be going to any concerts any time
soon".
5) The inmates have to be of certain age -- younger than what the
army accepts currently. *One* middle-aged (not to mention elderly)
inmate who drops dead from heat stroke, and the whole house of
cards falls down.
It's pretty hard to collapse from heat stroke when all you are doing
is sitting around in your pink under shorts. Water is not denied
them. The guards are standing outside in the heat with their
uniforms on. They aren't stripped down to their shorts.
Believe it or not there are people here who work outside all day long
5 days a week year round. It might be 115 deg F. or it might be 50
deg F. but they are outside and not collapsing of heat stroke in the
summer. All you have to do is stay hydrated.
I forget the names of the organizations that watch over humans
abusing other humans. Sheriff Joe has never been brought up on
charges by any of those organizations nor has he ever been in court
because of his treatment of his prisoners. So, I guess it must not
be illegal or inhumane because he has been doing it now since 1993.
The Baseline Killer - Mark Goudeau - or the other two serial killers
Dale Hausner and Samuel John Dieteman are NOT housed in tents. They
are in regular jails with bars while they await trial.
It seems that you either love Sheriff Joe or you hate him - there
does not seem to be any middle ground.
--
Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
Best Regards,
Carol Melton
Valley of the Sun
Phoenix, AZ U.S.A.
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