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The Straight Story

(48,121 posts) Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:16 PM Feb 2013

Arizona sheriff plans to charge inmates for meals

"Everybody else has to pay for food, why should they [inmates] get freebies," said Arpaio.

Arpaio confirmed to ABC15 that beginning in March, he is planning to charge each inmate $1 per day for the cost of their meals.

Currently, there are roughly 8,300 inmates in the county jails and tents who receive two meals a day.

"You have to be a little innovative these days with budget problems and rising costs," Arpaio told ABC15.

The Sheriff said meals used to cost $.60 a day per inmate, but the cost of food has risen since the jail is now purchasing more food with donations down.

http://www.krdo.com/news/Arizona-sheriff-plans-to-charge-inmates-for-meals/-/417220/19123810/-/k83b3p/-/index.html

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Arizona sheriff plans to charge inmates for meals (Original Post) The Straight Story Feb 2013 OP

nothing new here, inmates at many jails are charged daily loli phabay Feb 2013 #1

That may be true atreides1 Feb 2013 #7

I guess the old days of the Sheriff's wife making MineralMan Feb 2013 #2

Grandpa mostly got meals from local food places The Straight Story Feb 2013 #4

I reckon Aunt Be a will have to give her pie to good old Gomer Berlum Feb 2013 #9

As always, Arpaio shows what a wonderful example of humanity he is. Hayabusa Feb 2013 #3

Arpaio is a shit stain on the ass of America. Initech Feb 2013 #5

Well atreides1 Feb 2013 #14

Yes there are a lot of racists and bigots in Arizona. Initech Feb 2013 #15

arpaio is a disgrace to the human race. City Lights Feb 2013 #6

I only clicked to find out if it wasn't Arpaio. sadbear Feb 2013 #8

Goodness, is Arpaio doing something hideous to powerless people? sibelian Feb 2013 #10

Do prisoners qualify for food stamps? FarCenter Feb 2013 #11

No, it is considered an ineligible facility Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #13

Techically they are charged in my city also Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #12

a dollar a day is actually not a lot compared to some others loli phabay Feb 2013 #16

Isn't this a common practice, to charge inmates for meals, phone calls, etc? Peter cotton Feb 2013 #17

Are you sure this is a new story? Tempest Feb 2013 #18

So if you don't pay, you don't eat? rbixby Feb 2013 #19

then they'll add a day to your sentence onethatcares Feb 2013 #20

Message auto-removed srogers Feb 2013 #21

he is such an asshole sad-cafe Feb 2013 #22

What about those who are never charged? Brigid Feb 2013 #23

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)

1. nothing new here, inmates at many jails are charged daily

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Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:19 PM

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atreides1

(16,079 posts)

7. That may be true

Reply to loli phabay (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:38 PM

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But what Arpaio feeds those inmates cost less then what his department spends on feeding K-9's!

And I'll bet that most of that money never gets past Arpaio's hands...

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)

2. I guess the old days of the Sheriff's wife making

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:22 PM

Feb 2013

the meals for the folks in jail are long gone...

The Straight Story

(48,121 posts)

4. Grandpa mostly got meals from local food places

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:31 PM

Feb 2013

The jail was way too small to have it's own cooking area. Of course this was the town jail and not a big county lockup.

Berlum

(7,044 posts)

9. I reckon Aunt Be a will have to give her pie to good old Gomer

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:39 PM

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Hayabusa

(2,135 posts)

3. As always, Arpaio shows what a wonderful example of humanity he is.

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:26 PM

Feb 2013

:Sarcasm:

Initech

(100,081 posts)

5. Arpaio is a shit stain on the ass of America.

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:35 PM

Feb 2013

What a wonderfully compassionate conservative thing to do. We'll lock your ass up, throw away the key, and while you will make no money behind bars we'll charge you for meals. How does this fucker keep getting elected? Shouldn't he be on trial for extensive crimes related to racial profiling anyways?

atreides1

(16,079 posts)

14. Well

Reply to Initech (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:52 PM

Feb 2013

He keeps getting re-elected because he uses illegals as the boogey man...I believe that most of the county supervisors are on his personal payroll, or he has them by the short and curlies for other reasons...the Feds stopped investigating him, which makes him look like a champion to his supporters!

He's good at scaring old white people into thinking that those brown savages from Mexico are coming to murder them in their sleep and gorge on their intestines...it also helps that there are a lot of bigots and racists in Arizona...Arpaio's kind of people!!!

Initech

(100,081 posts)

15. Yes there are a lot of racists and bigots in Arizona.

Reply to atreides1 (Reply #14)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:57 PM

Feb 2013

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

6. arpaio is a disgrace to the human race.

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:36 PM

Feb 2013

I can't type here what I'd really like to see happen to him...

sadbear

(4,340 posts)

8. I only clicked to find out if it wasn't Arpaio.

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:38 PM

Feb 2013

Oh well.

sibelian

(7,804 posts)

10. Goodness, is Arpaio doing something hideous to powerless people?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:42 PM

Feb 2013

That's so unlike him.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

11. Do prisoners qualify for food stamps?

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Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:45 PM

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Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)

13. No, it is considered an ineligible facility

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #11)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:48 PM

Feb 2013

SNAP worker

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)

12. Techically they are charged in my city also

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 04:48 PM

Feb 2013

I was a corrections officer for metro louisville for 6 years before I moved on to casework.

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)

16. a dollar a day is actually not a lot compared to some others

Reply to Puzzledtraveller (Reply #12)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:00 PM

Feb 2013

I know of at least on which is three dollars a day, biggest ripoff though is phones and commisary.

Peter cotton

(380 posts)

17. Isn't this a common practice, to charge inmates for meals, phone calls, etc?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:04 PM

Feb 2013

I don't know anyone who's ever spent so much as a day in jail, so I'm a bit in the dark here.

Tempest

(14,591 posts)

18. Are you sure this is a new story?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:18 PM

Feb 2013

Dec. 12, 2008

Maricopa County jail inmates will start paying for their own meals beginning in January under a policy Sheriff Joe Arpaio revealed Thursday afternoon.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/12/12/20081212mcsofood1212.html#ixzz2MEOJFXNQ

rbixby

(1,140 posts)

19. So if you don't pay, you don't eat?

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Thu Feb 28, 2013, 05:36 PM

Feb 2013

I've never understood the charge to be in jail....what if you're indigent?

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)

20. then they'll add a day to your sentence

Reply to rbixby (Reply #19)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 06:09 PM

Feb 2013

for each day you can't afford to eat.

Makes perfectly good sense, doesn't it?

Seriously, I don't know what they would do, probably let you starve.

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sad-cafe

(1,277 posts)

22. he is such an asshole

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Thu Feb 28, 2013, 09:57 PM

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he just wants his name in the media again

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

23. What about those who are never charged?

Reply to The Straight Story (Original post)

Thu Feb 28, 2013, 10:11 PM

Feb 2013

Must be lot of those in any county jail -- those who are arrested, then later released without ever being charged with anything. It hardly seems fair to force them to pay for their "accommodations" when they shouldn't have been in jail in the first place.

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