Oklahoma - Sheriff Hopes Inmates Are 'Pretty in Pink'

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 01:17 PM

Sheriff Hopes Inmates Are 'Pretty in Pink'

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Sheriff Hopes Inmates Are 'Pretty in Pink'

Sheriff Joe Lester recently changed inmates uniforms from the familiar orange jump suites to a pink top with striped pants.

"Many of the inmates don't care for it, but since they're guests of ours...everybody in the Cleveland county jail by the end of the month will be wearing this," Undersheriff Rhett Burnett said.

NORMAN, Oklahoma - Orange is out and pink is in at the Cleveland County Jail.

Sheriff Joe Lester recently changed inmates uniforms from the familiar orange jumpsuits to a pink top with striped pants.

Pink for inmates started in Arizona, the idea of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Since then, pink inmate wear--tops, bottoms, even underwear--has caught on in a handful of states, now including Oklahoma.

"Many of the inmates don't care for it, but since they're guests of ours and since they don't get to choose the kind of clothes they wear for safety's sake, everybody in the Cleveland county jail hopefully by the end of the month will be wearing this attire," Undersheriff Rhett Burnett said.

Some studies suggest pink has a calming effect upon violent inmates.

District Attorney Greg Mashburn thinks once inmates wear the new garb, they'll be reluctant to end up in jail again.

"I mean, pink top and black and white striped bottoms - that wouldn't be something that I'd want to put on everyday, for sure," Mashburn said.

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watterinja · 15-04-2009, 01:20 PM

The gays will love it...

**beano** · 15-04-2009, 01:24 PM

Wow, that will really lower the crime rate.
Who wouldn't think twice about robbing an old lady to pay for his crack with that sort of penalty staring him in the face.

**barbaro** · 15-04-2009, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

"Many of the inmates don't care for it, but since they're guests of ours...everybody in the Cleveland county jail by the end of the month will be wearing this," Undersheriff Rhett Burnett said.

Pretty in pink, or "pounded in pink?"

Nevertheless, this guy looks like an inbread slack-jaw to the highest degree.

Oklahoma is known for this.

**BobR** · 15-04-2009, 05:35 PM

I would love to see one of these inmates slits that jerk-off Sheriff's throat. Being incarcerated in America is not supposed to mean you lose all your human dignity nor does it give jailers the moral or legal right to use humiliation as a "punishment."

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 05:44 PM

^Your quite right, they should make prisoners wear pink dresses

**beano** · 15-04-2009, 06:19 PM

And will when the politicians we vote for pass the laws to make the courts sentence criminals to ten years in a pink dress.
Don't vote for anyone who won't promise to implement this strategy now!

**Panda** · 15-04-2009, 06:30 PM

Humiliating the crims will make them better citizens when they go back into the community?
Can see this thing leading to more social problems down the track.

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 07:41 PM

^Maybe they should make them wear clowns outfits?

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 07:43 PM

Perfect

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 07:45 PM

And for the women prisons...

**blackgang** · 15-04-2009, 08:13 PM

Sheriff Joe already did that in Arizona, Pink skiviers I think and pink tops, plus he makes em live in tents and eat baloney sandwiches for lunch..and only educational TV.
He don't have near the prisoners that other countys do and no one wants to be in his jail.

**beano** · 15-04-2009, 09:53 PM

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona, has won fame for shackling prisoners, making them wear pink underwear and accommodating them in tents. A study commissioned by Joe Arpaio himself and carried out by Arizona State University however has found that the policies have been totally ineffective in reducing re-offending rates.
The prison population of the Sheriff’s Maricopa County has grown each year of his tenure and now stands at over 10,000. Incredibly, the crime rate there now tops that of both New York and Los Angeles.

Beehive - Imprisonment – only part of the answer

**blackgang** · 15-04-2009, 10:51 PM

I just heard about it and have never been there, but I do know he is doing it cheaper and thats the main interest when it comes to convicted criminals for me, fuck them assholes, why should they commit heinous crimes and then live in contained luxury while stiffs are working and paying taxes to keep the pricks.

**dirtydog** · 15-04-2009, 10:58 PM

Cheaper? I thought he was actually turning it into a profit making enterprise

The few people i know from Arizona think he's doing a fantastic job.

**blackgang** · 15-04-2009, 11:49 PM

Far as I know , he is and what do you expect when all he got to work with is Messicans and you know that they would rather lie and steal than work anyday and they have better accomidations in his jail that they got at home.
Only I don't know how Baloney Pozole would taste.

**beano** · 16-04-2009, 06:33 AM

My quoted text misses a few points, Arizona is on the major drug highway between Mexico/South America and the US and also the isolated country is ideal for hiding meth labs.
People in the booming drug industry have been historically indifferent to deterrents. The rewards are too high and the people involved consider the risks well worth it.

A personal opinion on money making prisons... by providing cheap labor they take work from free men who often go out and steal to supplement their income, so the crime rate goes up, the prison population increases which takes more jobs.....

**blackgang** · 16-04-2009, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by beano

A personal opinion on money making prisons... by providing cheap labor they take work from free men who often go out and steal to supplement their income, so the crime rate goes up, the prison population increases which takes more jobs.....

They can grow their own grub, make their own cloths and run their own cannerys and be self sufficent without taking any civilian jobs except stamping out license plates, I have seen them doing such things in Texas prisons and it is still a burden on taxpayers,,, but an idle mind is the devils workshop.
I think that the chain gangs were a damn fine idea too as they saved on a tractor and bush hog and gave the cons so exercise and kept them in good health.
I don't think that they should be used in competition with local workers, but saves fuel and machine expenses when that are used in some jobs, and all jobs used to be manual.

**BugginOut** · 16-04-2009, 08:33 AM

What has happened over the last 10 years? Why are there so many prisoners?
"The private contracting of prisoners for work fosters incentives to lock people up. Prisons depend on this income. Corporate stockholders who make money off prisoners' work lobby for longer sentences, in order to expand their workforce. The system feeds itself," says a study by the Progressive Labor Party, which accuses the prison industry of being "an imitation of Nazi Germany with respect to forced slave labor and concentration camps."
The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street. "This multimillion-dollar industry has its own trade exhibitions, conventions, websites, and mail-order/Internet catalogs. It also has direct advertising campaigns, architecture companies, construction companies, investment houses on Wall Street, plumbing supply companies, food supply companies, armed security, and padded cells in a large variety of colors."
According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people.

**barbaro** · 16-04-2009, 11:19 AM

Originally Posted by BobR

I would love to see one of these inmates slits that jerk-off Sheriff's throat. Being incarcerated in America is not supposed to mean you lose all your human dignity nor does it give jailers the moral or legal right to use humiliation as a "punishment."

You gotta point.

But I think you've "done time."

Where did you serve? How long? What were you in, for?

**beano** · 16-04-2009, 11:26 AM

Why do you want to know?
Compare stories?

**barbaro** · 16-04-2009, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by beano

Why do you want to know?
Compare stories?

No, I've never been in the joint.

How was it?

**beano** · 16-04-2009, 02:58 PM

Dunno, they always let me out by the time I was sober enough to take note of my surroundings.

**barbaro** · 16-04-2009, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by beano

Dunno, they always let me out by the time I was sober enough to take note of my surroundings.

Are you sure....about that?

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