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Infamous outdoor jail in Arizona's biggest county shut down

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Maricopa County's infamous outdoor jail has been officially shut down.

The Arizona Republic ( http://bit.ly/2y4YN3D ) reports that Tent City's remaining inmates were taken from the 7-acre compound in southwest Phoenix late Saturday and checked into the county's Durango Jail a few blocks away.
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Good riddance. There is a new sheriff in town, and this one is a real sheriff, not some psycho asshole who is only out to make a name and headlines for himself.

Infamous outdoor jail in Arizona's biggest county shut down - ABC News
 
Where are those inmates going to be housed now?
 
Mason66 said:
Where are those inmates going to be housed now?
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They are all housed in an existing, indoor facility that has lots of room.
 
Mason66 said:
Where are those inmates going to be housed now?
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Well, the previous conditions would literally be considered a war crime if they were done to POWs so I suspect somewhere more humane.
 
Joe Arpaio's desert concentration camp is gone :thumbs:
 
volsrock said:
Ok...a jail shuts down...how is this breaking political news?
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Where have you been? The nature of the jail and the jailer have been big political news for years, especially since the jailer was an expert in drawing attention to himself. When it shuts down, it's a victory for common sense and humanity.
 
volsrock said:
Ok...a jail shuts down...how is this breaking political news?
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Because it was less a jail and more a torture camp that right-wingers defended for many years?
 
FFS:doh

"Tent city" was, for the most part, established to be a deterrent to crime. It housed short term, low risk inmates (DUIs, child support dodgers, etc) with sentences usually less than 30 days. Many of the inmates in that facility did 24 hour stints and that was it. The housing was in the same GP Medium tents most of us used when we were in the service. There was plenty of water and nobody was at risk of death due to heat stroke. Yeah, it was hot out there but the guards were always on the lookout for anyone showing signs of heat stress. The idea was that if you spent a day or a week in "tent city" you'd be disinclined to commit another crime.
 
Lutherf said:
FFS:doh

"Tent city" was, for the most part, established to be a deterrent to crime. It housed short term, low risk inmates (DUIs, child support dodgers, etc) with sentences usually less than 30 days. Many of the inmates in that facility did 24 hour stints and that was it. The housing was in the same GP Medium tents most of us used when we were in the service. There was plenty of water and nobody was at risk of death due to heat stroke. Yeah, it was hot out there but the guards were always on the lookout for anyone showing signs of heat stress. The idea was that if you spent a day or a week in "tent city" you'd be disinclined to commit another crime.
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Oh well if it's only a little bit of torture fine.

None of those people had been convicted of a crime and you're ok with torturing them
 
Deuce said:
Oh well if it's only a little bit of torture fine.

None of those people had been convicted of a crime and you're ok with torturing them
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Where are you getting it that nobody had been convicted? When I was there everyone was already tried, convicted and sentenced. Some may have had an appeal pending but that's different.

It also wasn't torture by any definition. The conditions were neither cruel nor unusual. There was plenty of shade and nobody was chained to a bed.
 
Lutherf said:
Where are you getting it that nobody had been convicted? When I was there everyone was already tried, convicted and sentenced. Some may have had an appeal pending but that's different.

It also wasn't torture by any definition. The conditions were neither cruel nor unusual. There was plenty of shade and nobody was chained to a bed.
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I could be thinking of a different facility but I was under the impression this was one of the facilities that houses people arrested but not yet gone to trial.
 
Deuce said:
I could be thinking of a different facility but I was under the impression this was one of the facilities that houses people arrested but not yet gone to trial.
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No. Like I said before, Tent City housed low level, short term inmates for stuff like DUIs and failure to pay child support. Some inmates may have had to do a month or so but most were there for 24 hours to 10 days.
 
Mason66 said:
Where are those inmates going to be housed now?
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Maricopa County Jail. They are there now. You would have known this if you had bothered to read the link.
 
Deuce said:
Well, the previous conditions would literally be considered a war crime if they were done to POWs so I suspect somewhere more humane.
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A bed outside is a war crime, or was it the pink clothes that was the war crime?
 
Mason66 said:
A bed outside is a war crime, or was it the pink clothes that was the war crime?
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Intentional exposure to dangerous heat.
 
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