Over here in the UK, we allow the criminals to rule. There is plenty of posturing, but actually no deterrent to any violent crime. Murderers get fined or let off, and those that do make it to prison find Play Stations and Sky TV waiting for them. They get rewarded for whatever it is they did outside.
What we need is the approach that’s been taken by Sheriff Joe Arpaio who created the ‘tent city jail’ to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.
He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but Disney Channel movies.
He says: ‘They’re in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave.’
He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer’s money. Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn’t get sued for discrimination.
He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money.
When the inmates complained, he told them, ‘This isn’t the Ritz/Carlton. If you don’t like it, don’t come back.’
Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. ‘Criminals should be punished for their crimes – not live in luxury until it’s time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.’
The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: ‘It’s between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!’
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