i love Sheriff Joe

[Lady Cop]

here are some females in jail under the watchful benevolent eyes of Sheriff Joe.
this is not forced labor, they volunteer.
it's HOT out there!
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daily mail
For the women of American's only all-female chain gang, the day starts early at 6am. After being padlocked together at the ankles of their heavy-duty work boots and dressed in the familiar striped uniform, the female inmates are put on a bus at Estrella Jail in Phoenix, Arizona and taken off to their day's hard labor.

Tasks include weeding along the highways in Maricopa County or burying unclaimed bodies at White Tanks Cemetery, in a region where temperatures soar to 100F at this time of year.

The chain gang was abandoned across the U.S. in the 1950s but reintroduced in Arizona in 1995 by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, America's self-proclaimed toughest man in law enforcement.

He has been accused by the Justice Department of racially profiling Latinos and denying prisoners basic human rights by serving them rotten food and withholding drinking water.

Female prisoners must volunteer for the chain gang and many do so to break up the grinding routine of jail life. It also gets them out of lock-down, where four prisoners are kept in cells eight by 12 sq ft for 23 hours a day.

The chain gang is mainly made up of women in prison for DUI offenses and after a month of solid work, they get to move out of the cells and sleep in the comparatively better conditions of military tents next to jail's main building.

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