jimmyf
08-17-2003, 08:41 PM
With so many liberal judges in California, unfortunately, we will
never see this type of "encampment" here.
Subject: 110 degrees in Arizona
TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS
It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports:
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment
at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to
their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on
their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees
inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as
sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who
has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long
ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said
Wednesday that he told the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the
soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut
your mouths."
KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT? :rokk:
never see this type of "encampment" here.
Subject: 110 degrees in Arizona
TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS
It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports:
About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment
at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to
their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on
their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees
inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as
sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.
"It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who
has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long
ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said
Wednesday that he told the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the
soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut
your mouths."
KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT? :rokk: