Comments on: Oh noes! Not pink underwear!

By: Feministe » Framing

Feministe » Framing — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:09:31 +0000

[...] W. Bush dressing up as a cowboy and appealing to “authentic” American men? “America’s Toughest Sheriff” swaggering around Arizona and making inmates wear pink underwear to emasculate them? John [...]

By: Em

Em — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:54:31 +0000

I sorta think the bologna sandwiches would not be the worst of it. If he were really sadistic, he’d make them eat gruel.

By: Kay Olson

Kay Olson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:34:58 +0000

Also, his tent city jails where inmates are living in tents outdoors in the Arizona heat include many unconvicted people held because they cannot afford bail. Not that treating convicted inmates to the Arizona heat is acceptable (daily, for months on end, it is hot enough to cause heat stroke), but as I recall from my time living in the Valley, Arpaio’s influence runs so deep that the MSM doesn’t talk about how anyone who is simply arrested and unable to put up money for bail is subject to his inhumane and obnoxious schemes.

By: Marksman2000

Marksman2000 — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:33:43 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me.

I’ve never met a cop who wasn’t crooked.

By: Kathygnome

Kathygnome — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:02:16 +0000

I seem to remember that they did a study of outcomes and he actually has more repeat offenders than average.

By: AJ

AJ — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:37:58 +0000

That dude sounds like a total ass.

The pink underwear thing reminds me of when I worked at GE. All of the big, upright, oscillating fans on the shop floor were painted pink. I guess the fans would get stolen quite frequently, until somebody painted them pink, and nobody has stolen a fan since.

By: QueenFrostine

QueenFrostine — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 07:56:37 +0000

He’s being sued by New Times (a local alternative paper) because he arrested the owners after they wrote an expose on him. There were more shady details that I don’t remember offhand, but I’m pretty sure that a criminal investigation was at least opened on him. The real problem is that the mainstream local media is really easy on him and approving- insisting that he’s a necessary “maverick” who can really take the law in his own hands, and show those bad guys their place. The only regular citizens who actually like him are the minutemen types and the Ron Paul drones. Unfortunately there are way too many of those in the East Valley.

By: Rika

Rika — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:53:48 +0000

“Ugh, I missed that. Like who cares if you look fat in jail?”

Yeah really. I unfortunately had to spend 2 and a half days in jail (The judge was on vacation). I had no shampoo or deodorant, I was wearing a ugly baggy orange outfit, and I had no privacy when I used the toilet. I didn’t look or smell great, and I really didn’t give a care. You just don’t care about those things when you’re in jail. So I seriously doubt that any man in jail would be “humiliated” because they had to wear pink underwear.

Though I wonder why they would want to steal the underwear in the first place.

By: zuzu

zuzu — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:21:34 +0000

Yeah, that’s why I said I was really surprised that nobody had succeeded in a federal civil rights suit against him, apparently. New York City’s jail system was under a consent decree for years because of crappy conditions, even the central booking jails where you weren’t supposed to be held for more than 24 hours prior to booking. But county jail is real jail (sort of like Rikers Island here), where you are sentenced post-conviction. There are pretty clear standards of what constitutes constitutional conditions of confinement, and just from casual news articles, I know this guy isn’t meeting them. What I can’t understand is why he hasn’t been shut down by the federal courts in Phoenix.

By: L. Mac

L. Mac — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:11:05 +0000

You are a little late on this story, but I’m glad people around the country are beginning to see what is happening in Maricopa County. He also sells his pink underwear at the infamous “Pink Taco” restaurant in Scottsdale. People should be less concerned about civil rights violations that are being committed when it comes to how he dresses inmates, and more concerned with the over 300 court cases filed against him for mistreatment, including inmates dying at the hands of prison guards. He is cutting back visiting hours at the jails because of a budget shortage, while he uses taxpayers’ money to fight the lawsuits. I know of one illegal immigrant who, before being tricked into signing something which had her deported (despite having grown up in Arizona and having scholarships to college), suffered through her period for four days in a jail cell with no hygiene products, no blankets or bed, with over 30 other women. He is a terribly racist man running machine politics in the modern age.