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Journeyman · 07-13-2004, 08:59 PM

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He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

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Originally posted by User Name
This Wikipedia article brings up an interesting point in regard to Joe Arpaio's methodology

While his ways were the focus of wide media controversy partly due to the fact that a majority of the inmates in Maricopa County's jails are awaiting trial under an assumption of innocence, he shrugged it off by saying that jails should not be country clubs.

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Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

I report. You decide. *snicker*