The way Prison should be?

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[MtnEagle]

I voted other...

I don't feel it's enough...

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[JennyG999]

I voted YES, that's the way it should be...but then I saw MtnEagle's response, and I agree!

Why should they get TV at all? Make 'em read!

[MtnEagle]

The only thing that concerns me is the fear of people being sent there that DON'T belong there.

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[Sandman]

That is also my fear MtnEagle. That's my fear with the death penalty also... even though I do agree that death is a suitable punishment for certain people.

[Lotek]

I tend to think that very few inmates are wrongfully convicted. IMHO, DAs today are so concerned with their conviction rates that they do not even bring a case to trial unless they are as close to certain as possible of getting a conviction. If that is so, the odds of wrongful conviction are slim, provided one excludes convictions overturned on the basis of ludicrous technicalities through which some miscreants get off. And I also think that Sheriff Joe's system should be *the* model for all jurisdictions, including Club Fed.

[Sandman]

Very few? Okay, that's good. I worry about those few, however.

BTW: Glad to see you posting!

[Sandman]

Very few? Okay, that's good. I worry about those few, however.

BTW: Glad to see you posting!

[Mysteefied]

I Think its great! If more prisons were like this, there wouldnt be the overcrowding that they all have. I also agree that they shouldnt have TV.
~C~

[Mysteefied]

I Think its great! If more prisons were like this, there wouldnt be the overcrowding that they all have. I also agree that they shouldnt have TV.
~C~

[MadScot]

This isn't prison folks this is just jail. A sheriff can get away with this the prison system can't. In my work I've been to every mens prison in Arizona they are no club med. This has been going on 10 years now. As I recall a couple inmates died from heat stoke before I left. These people in the tent jails are all non-violent offenders like people convicted of DUI. You couldn't put real professional criminals in a setup like those. You would need 10 times the number of guards you have now.

[MadScot]

This article makes it sound like tent jails were planned or something. The tent jails became popular in Arizona when manditory jail time for DUI/DWI offenders was enacted. The jails couldn't hold everybody that was coming through the system so tent jails sprang up when they had no other place to put them.

[Kahlua Kid]

I like the way this SHeriff thinks - although the one thing I don't agree with is 138 degrees in the tents... there should be a "max" temp allowed. 138 does seem inhumane.

But no coffee, no TV... I believe prison should have no luxuries... that's the point of being in prison!

I love - "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."

If prisons were more like this, I think more people would think twice about committing a crime - even drunk driving...