Was Arpaio guilty of rotten meals or denial of medical care? I don't recall EVER having heard that. I think the meals were a little Spartan, steak and Lobster only on special occasions. He made them wear pink and they lived in tents and they worked every day so I think most of what he did was good. Apparently most of them didn't go back for a second dose. I think with Arpaio it was mainly the bleeding hearts stirring the pot. But I could stand corrected. He may have gone a little overboard in his doddering years.
Oh come on, this isn't the first time his record has been brought up here. The whole way along it was about more than pink jumpsuits. Honestly, if she was a modern politician trying to protect inmates, she'd be a 'bleeding heart stirring the pot' by the standards of many on here.
from wiki.
Unconstitutional jail conditions[edit]
Federal Judge Neil V. Wake ruled in 2008, and again in 2010, that the Maricopa County jails violated the constitutional rights of inmates in medical and other care related issues.
[31][32] This ruling was a result of a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, which alleged that "Arpaio routinely abused pre-trial detainees at Maricopa County Jail by feeding them moldy bread, rotten fruit and other contaminated food, housing them in cells so hot as to endanger their health, denying them care for serious medical and mental health needs and keeping them packed as tightly as sardines in holding cells for days at a time during intake."
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In a ruling issued in October 2010, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Arpaio to follow Judge Wake's 2008 ruling, which required Arpaio to end severe overcrowding and ensure all detainees receive necessary medical and mental health care, be given uninterrupted access to all medications prescribed by correctional medical staff, be given access to exercise and to sinks, toilets, toilet paper and soap and be served food that meets or exceeds the U.S. Department of Agriculture's dietary guidelines.
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In the case of Braillard v. Maricopa County, the plaintiff's attorney cited numerous reports commissioned and paid for by Maricopa county, dating back as far as 1996, detailing a "culture of cruelty" where inmates are routinely denied humane healthcare at Maricopa County Jails run by Arpaio. Testifying in this case, Arpaio stated that he could not deny making the statement that even if he had a billion dollars he wouldn’t change the way he runs his jails.
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Arpaio has publicly stated that his jails are meant as places for punishment, and that their inhabitants are all criminals. Most jail inmates are pre-trial detainees, who are considered innocent until proven guilty.
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