Home / Juvenile Offenders
Posted on Wed Jul 31, 2002 at 08:36:50 AM EST
Tags: (all tags)
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has some gruesome plans for teens sentenced to the county jail--including burying the dead.
15 to 17 year olds sentenced to the county jail for up to a year will be placed in a juvenile chain gang, bound together at the ankle in groups of five. They will wear traditional black and white prison garb as well as the jail's notorious pink underwear.
The juveniles will be required to pick up trash on public streets and bury the relatives of indigent families at the county cemetery.
The Sheriff calls the plan "Hard Knocks High." We call it disgusting.
Posted on Sat Jul 27, 2002 at 10:23:19 AM EST
Tags: (all tags)
Good expose of the juvenile criminal justice system in American Prospect's TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 14. "I Plead the Sixth. by Sasha Polakow-Suransky. Thanks to Hamster for alerting us to it.
| << Previous 12 |
