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| 16th Anniversary of Tent City |
| 2009-08-03 |
| Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is celebrating the 16th anniversary of Tent City with a hot dog barbecue and ice cream social for inmates on Monday. The 1,000 hot dogs and the ice cream that will be served around noon were donated, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. “First, I feed them free liver and onions on my birthday, and now hot dogs and ice cream,” Arpaio said in a prepared statement. “This might tarnish my tough Sheriff image.” Arpaio opened Tent City on Aug. 3, 1993 for about $100,000. Phoenix’s Tent City is filled with Korean War canvas tents donated from the U.S. Department of Defense. Inmates supplied most of the labor to build Tent City, which kept construction costs low, according to MCSO. Tent City is the largest “canvas incarceration compound” capable of incarcerating up to 2,500 inmates in 65 tents on about 15 acres, according to MCSO. Only convicted men and women are housed in Tent City. Since 1993, 375,000 convicted inmates have served their sentence in Tent City, according to MCSO. “As long as I’m the Sheriff, the tent program will be operational,” said Arpaio in a prepared statement. In April, a separate Tent City housing area was opened for convicted inmates with immigration or other holds placed on them, according to MCSO. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #4 I happen to like liver and onions, also chicken livrs. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-03 17:03 |
| #3 Hmmm..."Petraeus/Mattis '12" or "Petraeus/Arpaio '12"? Decisions, decisions! |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-08-03 15:47 |
| #2 There's also the pink underwear and boloney sandwiches. Then I heard that the inmates had to have TV so Joe set up a TV that only gets the Disney Channel. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-08-03 14:43 |
| #1 Jo, Liver and Onions??? Tents are cool, but this is cruel! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-08-03 10:57 |