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Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone to shut down controversial 'Tent City'

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Having been a guest of ""Tent City" at one point, I'll miss it. It was nowhere near the hellhole people have made it out to be and it served the purpose for which it was intended quite well.

Contrary to popular belief, Arpaio was very much of the mind that prison should serve as an opportunity for those who wished to straighten out to do so. They were expected to stand up and take their punishment for the crime they committed but if they cleaned up they would get the opportunity to improve themselves.
 
Yep, replace it with an air-conditioned condo facility with cable TV, spas and room/maid service - prisoners deserve no less. ;)
 
Lutherf said:
Having been a guest of ""Tent City" at one point, I'll miss it. It was nowhere near the hellhole people have made it out to be and it served the purpose for which it was intended quite well.

Contrary to popular belief, Arpaio was very much of the mind that prison should serve as an opportunity for those who wished to straighten out to do so. They were expected to stand up and take their punishment for the crime they committed but if they cleaned up they would get the opportunity to improve themselves.
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Dana burned. :lol:
 
Lutherf said:
Having been a guest of ""Tent City" at one point, I'll miss it. It was nowhere near the hellhole people have made it out to be and it served the purpose for which it was intended quite well.

Contrary to popular belief, Arpaio was very much of the mind that prison should serve as an opportunity for those who wished to straighten out to do so. They were expected to stand up and take their punishment for the crime they committed but if they cleaned up they would get the opportunity to improve themselves.
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Then you didn't serve in the summer that's for sure.
 
One should ask why the Maricopa County Supervisors approved the funding for Tent City. Why didn't they approve funds for more jails. They complained of overcrowding in the jails. I remember Sheriff Joe ask for additional money for jail space, but was never granted the funds. So he came up with Tent City to address some of the jail space issue.

If Penzone is correct that the tents are no longer needed and that jail space exists for the prisoners. Then maybe need for the tents has come to end.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Yep, replace it with an air-conditioned condo facility with cable TV, spas and room/maid service - prisoners deserve no less. ;)
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Air conditioning down there is pretty much a necessity. The rest, well if your prisons have them, they are more luxurious than ours! (inmates here can have cable tv but they have to pay for it)
 
Lutherf said:
It was 20+ years ago but it was definitely summer. August if I remember correctly.
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Then your experience was very different than my friends experience in tent City
 
poweRob said:
Then your experience was very different than my friends experience in tent City
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The setup wasn't much different than some of what I dealt with in the military. There were a bunch of GP mediums with bunk beds and an open bay bathroom facility. There were also some tables set up for chow and playing cards. I think there was one TV that got maybe three channels. It wasn't the Hilton but I also wasn't there for vacation.

The inmates housed in that area were short term, non-violent offenders such as DUIs, child support deadbeats and a few drug offenses. Most were in and out in a day or two but a few had a month or more to do. It wasn't torture. It wasn't dangerous. It was uncomfortable but if you ****ed up that's what you get. The idea was, at least in part, that if you went there once you wouldn't be in a hurry to go back.
 
danarhea said:
This should make Sheriff Arpaio, the sheriff Penzone beat, pretty happy, because when he begins to serve his time, it won't be there.

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone to shut down controversial - CBS 5 - KPHO
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It was long overdue, Tent City has been more than half empty for years...but it costs the same to run if it is full or half empty. It was proved over and over that tent city had no effect on recidivism.

Also, that corrupt fool Arpaio was only using it as a stunt. Arpaio got booted by a huge margin, and his trial starts in a few weeks. Get this, they tried to delay the trial 60 days because a new lawyer on his case (joined a few weeks ago) complained that his son's Bar Mitzvah is scheduled for that time, that got thrown out. Then, his long time counsel Mel McDonald quit the case a few days ago.

Hopefully, Arpaio gets jail time, and meanwhile, we have an actual sheriff now who is a grown up and is not given to stupid stunts and fundraising.
 
American said:
The discussion was about Tent City.
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That's an extremely shallow response, since it was Arpaio that motivated the creation of tent city, which cost the taxpayers huge sums of money, and it was Arapio's corruption that put people in tent city because they were Hispanic and didn't have the papers Arpaio demanded they carry, even though many of them happened to be US citizens. As for the conditions, we have a guy saying he was there and it was heaven, and another guy saying that the people he knows were there said it was hell. So who's right on that?

"In Tent City, however, the most obvious point of contention is that inmates are subjected to extraordinarily high temperatures. For example, the inside of the tents reached 138 degrees during one heatwave in July 2003, leading the sheriff to give those incarcerated a chance to strip down to their pink underwear. More recently, inmates got ice cream and icy towels to combat soaring temperatures. "

Oops, it seems that the guy claiming it to be heaven was lying. And, just in case you didn't know, 138 degrees is dangerous.
 
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