Or North Carolina. I AM WORKING ONHER PROBLEMS AND WILL REVEAL THE FANCY LADY SHE IS.Originally Posted by Bert
How about instead we all talk about how great Vermont is!
Or North Carolina. I AM WORKING ONHER PROBLEMS AND WILL REVEAL THE FANCY LADY SHE IS.How about instead we all talk about how great Vermont is!
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New Jersey. Enough smurfing said.
Lol.. You know I'd never seen a chain gang until I moved to AZ? I didn't know they still existed. And there was a guard with a big 'ole military rifle and his German Shepherd.Joe Arpaio's crimes are nearly on par with Hitler's. All of that stuff you just mentioned about his prisons? Well, those prisons are for non-whites. When I lived there, he was having his deputies scour the street and if they looked suspicious at all, they'd be thrown in a van, taken down to the station and questioned mercilessly; probably tortured. Did I mention that he only does this to Mexicans? Racial profiling. It didn't matter if they were an actual, well to do citizen of the United states or not. He was literally tearing families apart, and he probably still is.So you'd like to go back to prisons paying for the food we feed prisoners instead of them paying for their own? You want them to have porn back instead of being made to watch g rated movies only? I think joe is doing a great job. Jail should not be a place to enjoy. You should never want to go back there and that's how he's making it.
On top of that, it came to the attention of the DA that Arpaio was neglecting hundreds and hundreds of Mexican-specific kidnappings, disappearances, rapes and molestations. He could not provide an answer at the time other than "we've been busy with the war on drugs". I won't respond to what you think prisoners should and should not be able to do, but I will tell you that Tent City is something he should be burned alive for.
Arpaio is scum, and one day he will get what's coming to him.
And yes, Tent City is definitely an atrocity. But from what I've read, he may not do it as much to white & black people, but I'm pretty sure he does the torturing to them too. I'm almost positive I saw that on t.v. ... He was doing a tour of tent city and an inmate said "Eff Arpaio!" - immediately 1 month solitary confinement. He like put him there on camera. He's a monster well-known for what he does. I don't know how or why he's still the Sheriff.
I'm almost positive Robert DeNiro's role in "Machete" is based on Arpaio ... Minus the dealings with people in Mexico and whatnot.
OK so maybe I should a clarify. I don't agree with every single policy he has but, I do agree with the way the prisons are. I don't agree if they are segregated, that's wrong but regardless of color you should be forced to wear pink and work your ass off to pay for you food and board. I know far too many people who commit crimes just to have 3 meals a day and hang out with their friends in the yard. I have multiple friends who have spent time in federal and state prisons. they come home and act like they were at summer camp seeing all their long last friends. Yes smurfed up stuff happens but it happens in the outside world as well. I just think prison should be made as horrible as possible without inflicting harm.
And the amounts of people and their reasons for being there are an entirely different subject that I think most everyone can agree, needs to be fixed. But that does not mean that those who deserve to be rotting in there should have a happy go lucky time.
New Jerzey does suck. I went there for a couple of days. A dude flew me up to visit him. I immediately wanted to kill myself. I hated every second I spent there.
Like, he thought he'd be all cool and take me to Atlantic City ...... On a Tuesday Afternoon in -September-. Who does that? It was cold and full of old people! He didn't even buy me drinks! I was so irritated. heh.
EDIT:
The only pink they actually wear is like their socks & boxers & thermal tees. It's not like it's head-to-toe pink.
Besides, tons of dudes wear the color nowadays. It's not -that- embarrassing or humiliating.
At least they get comfy inmate gear. I spent 42 hrs in jail and those jumpsuits made out of tarp are the worst.
EDIT 2:
Arpaio indeed does torture those other than illegal immigrants.
Example:
http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/09/...l-get-over-it/
http://windypundit.com/2010/09/joe_a...ers_getting_a/
Last edited by noxious.sunshine; 06-05-2013 at 03:00 AM.
Dehumanizing people who have committed crimes has been shown to increase recidivism. The prison system already stigmatizes people who have been in, to the point that felons will have difficulty ever getting jobs beyond menial labor - which makes crime an even more appealing option to support themselves. The modern prison system is a failure in almost every way and making it more brutal towards inmates only serves to make the problems worse.
So, women. Not looking any better.
Exactly/
The dude's 80 though. Maybe he'll kick the bucket soon. Fingers crossed. I also read that he's been attempting to "adopt" a more humane persona - actually having his officers respond to emergency calls from/for illegals crossing in the desert and -helping- them before sending them packing. Mostly because that Judge Snow made him change somewhat. But, it's all too little too late and not anything sincere.
Funnily enough, when my ex out there got locked up, he was never put in Tent City. He was put in Towers over on Gibson Ln (by Durango & 31st Ave). He was later moved to prison after I came back to TN. I'm assuming Nogales or Douglas since he was illegal and would just get sent back across to Mejico anyway.
It doesn't help that prisons in the US are run by private corporation who make a profit on recidivismDehumanizing people who have committed crimes has been shown to increase recidivism. The prison system already stigmatizes people who have been in, to the point that felons will have difficulty ever getting jobs beyond menial labor - which makes crime an even more appealing option to support themselves. The modern prison system is a failure in almost every way and making it more brutal towards inmates only serves to make the problems worse.
This twenty-year-old boy was distinguished from childhood by strange qualities, a dreamer and an eccentric. A girl fell in love with him, and he went and sold her to a brothel...
You mean the prison system in the U.S. isn't run by the government!? NO WAY! First the Nudist Club confusion and now -this-. I think I'm traumatized.
I kid. I kid.
You are right, prison should not be a place that people want to return to. Neither, however, should it be a place that is completely devoid of any attempts at rehabilitation. Saying that Arpaio is doing a great job is a pretty horrendous claim to make.So you'd like to go back to prisons paying for the food we feed prisoners instead of them paying for their own? You want them to have porn back instead of being made to watch g rated movies only? I think joe is doing a great job. Jail should not be a place to enjoy. You should never want to go back there and that's how he's making it.
Curious, has anyone here actually lived in Mississippi?
I had a friend my freshman year of undergrad who was from there. He seemed really happy to have gotten out.
I've been -through- Mississippi. And the majority of the continental U.S. minus a handful of states in the Midwest & Northwest, & a few in the Northeast.
I didn't find anything particularly enjoyable about MS. Or Alabama. My youngest cousin got a contract with a hospital down in Mobile (he's like a .. Doctor or Brain surgeon or something) that pays a pretty penny. I guess it's worth leaving Dayton, OH for? IDK. It's a toss up as to which one would be better...
My parents consider my home county "God's Country" 'cuz it's just soooo beautiful and they miss my hometown and blah blah blah. I'm like "Gag! You do realize that McMinn county at one point was #1 in the nation for Meth labs, right? If it's lost that title since then, anyway..." ... My dad was all "That's blasphemous!" and I'm like "Uh Hel-lo! Look at your meth mouth son & his cracked out wife, dog. For real." ... But I digress.
The one thing I'll give the Deep South is that you can get better barbecue there than pretty much anywhere else in the country. I wouldn't want to live there, though.
@Bert: Arpaio is bad and you should feel bad for defending him.
If Dayton is/was where you live(d) in Ohio, then I don't blame you for hating it. Dayton smurfing sucks.
I miss real southern BBQ so much. You can get stuff around here, but it just isn't the same.
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