Give this guy a medal!

Warning: If you are a bleeding heart liberal, hard-nosed Democrat, tree hugger or otherwise hate the "injustice" of what I'm about to priase, hit the "Next Blog" button at the top of the screen because I can promise you that you will not like what I'm about to say.

I got this email from my mom this morning. This guy deserves to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor! Dig it:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the tent city jail has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails.

Took away their weights.

Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails.

So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton.

If you don't like it, don't come back."

He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

More on the Arizona Sheriff:

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix
(116 degrees just set a new record), 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 we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, 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, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic

He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and
they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

w00t!! We need more men like this sheriff. Tell me, do you really think that prisoners, the scum of the Earth, deserve even equal treatment to you and me? Not just "no," but Hell no! Contrary to what the idiotic Demonrats might have us think, prison should be about punishment and not "rehabilitation." Make them live in tents. Make them eat crappy food. Make them do hard labor. Why do they need cable TV and air conditioning? A good many free citizens don't have these luxaries.

Don't sit there and tell me that you actually believe that prisoners deserve to be coddled.

I think I've said all I need to say about this. Honestly, the above email pretty much sums out how I feel about the prison system, except to say that all prisons should be like this tent city. I can promise you that if all prisons were this bad (and not the luxary hotels that some tend to be now), no one would want to go to prison; they would make damn sure they behaved. Would you be surprised to learn that some felons are in prison by choice? They commit crimes just so they can be in prison, where they receive free room and board, not to mention cable TV and better healthcare than some of us on the outside enjoy.

And all of this is on my (and your) dime. Fucked up? I think so.

If you agree with the "Holiday Inn" approach to prison, I have a big, steamin' cup of S.T.F.U. with your name on it.

--Jonathan