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Arpaio?s America

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Arpaio?s America Editorial: NY Times including a picture on the editorial page of the shackled men Published: February 5, 2009 It has come to this: In Phoenix on Wednesday, more than 200 men in shackles and prison stripes were marched under armed guard past a gantlet of TV cameras to a tent prison encircled by an electric fence. They were inmates being sent to await deportation in a new immigrant detention camp minutes from the center of America?s fifth-largest city. The judge, jury and exhibitioner of this degrading spectacle was the Maricopa County sheriff, Joe Arpaio, the publicity-obsessed star of a Fox reality show and the self-appointed scourge of illegal immigrants. Though he frequently and proudly insists that he answers to no one, except at election time, the sheriff is not an isolated rogue...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).