Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and
charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the
jails.

Took away their weights.

Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do
free work on county and city projects. Then he started chain
gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for
discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was
a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So
he hooked up the cable TV again but only let in the Disney
channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather
channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be
while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional
value. When the inmates complained, he told them.....this
is a good one......"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you
don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on
videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a
reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he
replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a
lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

More on the AZ Sheriff.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix
(116 degrees just set 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.

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 Zanzot, an
inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's
inhumane."

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 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 have to wear full battle gear, but they
didn't commit any crimes . .. . so shut your darned
mouths."

we had a sheriff here in arkansas who did this aways back.. Tommy Robinson.. when the jails got full he chained people to the fences, he had forced labor work crews and such..

He is most famous for setting up "ambushes" at convenience stores. There was a string a robberies all over little rock. he hid deputies in the backs of stores with a peephole and rifle. solved the problem very quickly

he made an apperance on the johnny carson show over this (this should give you the time frame).

once it got some national attention.. the far left freaked out... he got shut down..

Personally, I would like to see a lot more of this. Prisons should be healthy and humane. And otherwise a very rotten nasty place to be.
I like chain gangs and work crews.
If it's terrible, some folks may be more careful about going there.

Not my usual post. Sorry about that.
Now back to my sweet ever lovin Vette fixin self.

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kstyer said: Personally, I would like to see a lot more of this. Prisons should be healthy and humane. And otherwise a very rotten nasty place to be. I like chain gangs and work crews. If it's terrible, some folks may be more careful about going there. Not my usual post. Sorry about that. Now back to my sweet ever lovin Vette fixin self.

I found this on another site I visit.I dont think we ought to make prisons a vacation with meals either for some of our career criminals either.Why should they be allowed to lift weights to make their guards lifes even more dangerous.And its all paid for by us! Anyway,just wanted to see what you guys thought.

They want excersise? Break Rocks. Bend and lift, trash from the road. You get the idea.