No charges against Sheriff Joe.

[Boehlertaught]

His jail is also the model of efficiency, costing the taxpayers substantially less per incarceree (is that a word?) than other major city/county hoosegows. "Visitors" work, produce goods & food, learn trades & skills and even earn a little $. His system should be adopted everywhere, but the ACLU and-like minded outfits would have a hissy. (As an aside, would be good if all state prisons operated the way Burl Cain runs his.)

I agree. I heard he would not let the incarceree's (let's say it's word cause it's cool) have coffee because it had no nutritional value.

 

[Shadowrider]

Why does he get so much publicity? Because he make inmates sleep outside and were pink underwear. I dont understand the press and hype. Lots of sheriffs do just as good a job without bringing all the attention on their office.

Because the .gov has declared war on Arizona and he's saying "bring it bitches".

 

[Lurker66]

I just think he garners too much un-needed attention. I cant argue with the voters and im all for using inmates for workcrews(non violent types).

Underwear, sleeping in tents stuff is a non issue for me. Just seems odd, that out of all the counties in the U.S. He's the only sheriff that garners national press.

 

[mons meg]

For me, it seems he has a problem with the rule of law in general. All I hear on this board is about how cool Sheriff Joe is for running the awesomest county jail in America. Nobody wants to talk about how officials who criticized him publicly ended up being the targets of "corruption" investigations, including the county judge who ended up on the wrong end of a "sick out" by MCSD deputies. The county prosecutor (I guess the AZ version of a DA) got disbarred by the state supreme court over the affair, from what I read.

And the Steven Seagal driving the APC stunt? Do people actually think that was funny?

Look, I'm no J.B. Books, here, but holding Arpaio up as some sort of model sheriff seems a bit short sighted.

 

[Lurker66]

For me, it seems he has a problem with the rule of law in general. All I hear on this board is about how cool Sheriff Joe is for running the awesomest county jail in America. Nobody wants to talk about how officials who criticized him publicly ended up being the targets of "corruption" investigations, including the county judge who ended up on the wrong end of a "sick out" by MCSD deputies. The county prosecutor (I guess the AZ version of a DA) got disbarred by the state supreme court over the affair, from what I read.

And the Steven Seagal driving the APC stunt? Do people actually think that was funny?

Look, I'm no J.B. Books, here, but holding Arpaio up as some sort of model sheriff seems a bit short sighted.

thats kinda what i think.