“Sheriff Joe” Arpaio, who served as an ACA Arizona host committee chairperson, is revered in corrections circles for his law-and-order media savvy. At the conference, all the buzz was about Sheriff Joe’s gleaming 620,000 square-foot 4th Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix, which opened for business [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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Reader Comments
...That Kerick is affiliated with any law enforcement group is very telling.
“Victims of their own profession” ~ have taken over the prison system to the point that it is a cat and mouse game, with prisoners being the mice.
We live in a really sad and sick society and obviously ~ no one cares.
Arpaio is a twisted NAZI punk, see the Phoenix
New Times, they have had hundreds of exposes of
this crook.
Examples set are examples followed. The powers that be WANT a violent, frightened society - it is the key to their position.
A society that eats flesh and blood is a primitive, hateful society. When enough citizens turn away from the horror of the carnage on their dinner plates, and take up peaceful sustenance, we will discover a wonderful society in balance with the Earth. When enough citizens wake up to sanity, we will have a sane society. Until then, blood thirsty madmen shall rule hell on Earth.
If they can do this in AZ they should be doing it all over America. Prison cannot and should not be nice - it needs to be somewhere people don’t want to go. Not where they are coddled. I would vote to put this man in charge of the National prison system if there is such a thing.
Finally! So many comments from the “left”, and yet, “The people” seem to keep voting him in….........He must be one of “the few” that actually represent the standards and views and expectations of “THE PEOPLE” AKA THE MAJORITY.
We need more of this throughout the country.
It is great to see that there is someone out there who is willing to thumb his nose at the vocal minority and act out the wishes of quiet majority in this country without regard for the politacally correct nonsense that passes for policy. Jail is punishment for criminals, not a publicly funded country club for losers. We need more Joe Arpaios in this country, and now that he has established some order in Arizona, I think he should take it on the road and bring some order to the rest of the states.
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