TOO HOT FOR ARIZONA CONVICTS ???



It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, 116 degrees, sets a new record,

the Associated Press reports:



About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at

the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their

government-issued pink boxer shorts.



On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on

their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees
inside, the

week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected

on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.



"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzo, an inmate who has

lived in the tents for 1 ½ years. "It's inhumane."



Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago

started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not

one bit sympathetic.



He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates:



"It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and

they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths. "



KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?

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