Arpaio runs a jail-not a prison.

I can see tossing a short term criminal into the clink there, but he doesn't have the facilities to house longer termed-hardened crooks in a setting like that.

The shire reeve is one of those creepy PIP who do things at an extreme level and then crow about it. Pink underwear, striped shirts and the chain gangs are part of putting down the law in the town and nothing more than that.

If the taxpayers are OK with him losing 30 million dollars -almost 2 million dollars a year since he was put in charge of the county's inmates, so be it.
Two million dollars a year hires how many more cops?
A few squad cars?
Overtime?
Community policing programs?
Equipment?

They just award criminals and their families money from the taxpayers that could be put to better use. As it is, they pay for that AHs arrogance and rules.

Yes, they did commit crimes and should be punished accordingly, but why should they be given a chance to benenfit from it? Would it make anyone feel good to put a person in jail who had a few parking tickets that were not paid and have them die there, in a jail that's closer to hell than it is punishment?


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It's pretty much the same with the El Lay county sheriffs- Look up the name Lee Baca and the stats on how the jails, more conventional that Arpaio's, wererun and you'd see the corruption, the beatings and deaths that occured under his watch.