The tent city jail is not designed to rehabilitate criminals. It is designed to keep Sheriff Joe Arpaio employed. As long as it cost less to house criminals in tents that a proper facility he will have a job. Someday the real cost of doing business will come to light and Sheriff Arpaio will not only loose his job but may end up spending some time with past residents.
The vending machines are set to take money and not give product. Minor at first glance, but if you go with the media hype of 2000 inmates at a dollar per inmate per day, that is 730,000 dollars a year.
Reports of food cost of 40 cents per meal per inmate are extremely low. How could anyone complain about that? Have you priced baloney lately? Two slices of meat and two slices of bread come to about 10 cents. Where is the rest of the money going? Also, the meat is colored to make it unappetizing, if the inmates do not eat it this meal it is served to them at the next meal. There by further reducing the actual cost of the meal.
Guards regularly stay inside, because it is too hot or too cold for THEM to be outside. Therefore contraband regularly flies over the fence into the yard.
Some day the people of Arizona (or the Federal government) will wake up and see the truth. When that happens I wonder it they will put Sheriff Arpaio in a tent?
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