Slog - Comments on Shaming that Addiction Away http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away Pink underwear for male inmates, chain gangs for teens, and meals at less than 20 cents per plate weren’t enough for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now women convicted of drug-law violations get special shirts. Women inmates in Maricopa County have been on chain gangs since 1996. Now, 15 of them will wear T-shirts that say "I was a drug addict" as they clean trash from a Phoenix street on Monday. The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says the move is designed to discourage young people from using drugs. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the women have such sad stories about what drugs... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:27:50 -0800 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:13:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by helix ...soon to be an ironic logo at your nearest hot topic.

]]> helix http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998946 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998946 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:34:50 -0800 Comment by Some Jerk Sheriff Joe is a populist moron. He touts saving the taxpayers money by removing salt and pepper from the jail and serving expired bologna to inmates, saving a few cents a day, but exposes the taxpayer to repeated multimillon dollar civil suits for failing to provide basic healthcare to inmates, negligent deaths of prisoners, etc. Trying to subpeona the web records of the Phoenix New Times to see who was reading their exposes of him may be the lowlight of his recent idiocy.


Not to mention that neglect of basic needs has turned his 'Tent City' prison into a hotbed of drug resistant staph and TB infections. I wouldn't visit Phoenix if you paid me, and Sheriff Joe is a prime example of why.

]]> Some Jerk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998961 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998961 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:41:17 -0800 Comment by Dougsf No one with even the slightest degree of expertise in the field of either chemical dependence or criminal justice would agree with this moron that "shame" is a stop on the path to redemption.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998971 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:45:57 -0800 Comment by sw Not to mention the roles of guilt and shame in the cycle of addiction...

]]> sw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998978 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:48:31 -0800 Comment by Mr. X Reading about this fascist always drives my blood pressure up.

Fuck Sheriff Joe, and fuck the assholes in Phoenix who keep reelecting his sorry Nazi ass. Even law enforcement professionals from neighboring jurisdictions don't support him.

It's not nice to say, but I hope he gets cancer and dies a slow agonizing death.

Really.

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998989 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c998989 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:52:27 -0800 Comment by Westside forever Nothing new here--those in power have always claimed that the poor are that way because of their moral failings, not because the deck is stacked against them.

I'm sure the recidivism rate for these t-shirt wearers won't move an iota.

]]> Westside forever http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999053 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:30:38 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Parading a bunch of brown and black drug addicts around will sure keep white kids from doing drugs.

I mean come on. Most kids won't identify with these women. They'll think: I won't turn out that way. And the kids who might identify with poor minorities are poor minorities themselves. I doubt Sheriff Joe gives two tiny rat farts about the welfare of poor people.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999114 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999114 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:23:48 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton I grew up in Phoenix. Scrolling up from the bottom, the picture was the first thing I saw and I knew it had to be Sheriff Joe.

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999174 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999174 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:53:17 -0800 Comment by john cocktosin I think there just might be a pretty simple way for the inmates to avoid this treatment in the first place: obey the law.

]]> john cocktosin http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999180 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999180 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:57:33 -0800 Comment by Greg @9: Of course! How simple. I guess we all forgot that drug addicts are rational actors.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999275 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999275 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:15:40 -0800 Comment by yucca flower Sheriff Joe's style of punishment comes from the belief that if you make prison so incredibly unpleasant people will make sure they never go back. People vote for him again and again because 1.) The alternative candidate is worse than he is. 2.) Nobody gives a $hit about drug addicts in Arizona (most people in jail are there on drug charges).

Just read the comments made about Carol Gotbaum.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1002airportdeath1002.html
The general opinion was that her kids were better off without the junkie/drunken trash.

]]> yucca flower http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999321 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999321 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:08:35 -0800 Comment by Scorpion I like Sheriff Joe, and will keep voting for him as long as he keeps running for office. He's got the right idea-why should we coddle a bunch of leeches who are nothing but a burden to society? And speaking of leeches, he's got the right idea about illegal immigrants too. Honestly, I wonder sometimes if you left-wing kooks weren't dropped on your heads when you were born.

]]> Scorpion http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999341 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999341 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:30:04 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @12,

This is what a "Good German" looks like.

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999351 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999351 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:50:12 -0800 Comment by Mr. X @12,

Oh, and would you include drug using leeches like Rush Limbaugh, Cindy McCain and GW Bush who had the money to lawyer up when they got in trouble with the law in your little world?

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999381 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999381 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:46:02 -0800 Comment by Scorpion Of course not. They're productive members of society. Isn't that distinction obvious to you? Or did you get dropped on your head too?

]]> Scorpion http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999406 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999406 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:42:33 -0800 Comment by ellarosa productive. interesting definition. silver-spooners and blowhards are "productive." huh.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999420 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999420 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:21:05 -0800 Comment by Scorpion Yes, productive. I suppose you think those people in the T-shirts and on the chain gangs are more productive. You know, breaking into houses and robbing convenience stores never struck me as particularly productive, but if you think that way, well then, God bless your pointy little liberal head.

]]> Scorpion http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999427 Drugs Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:37:41 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Someone should do a parody:

"I Was A Rug Addict"

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999503 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999503 Drugs Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:55:32 -0800 Comment by yuiop What's an "alters boy"?

]]> yuiop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999505 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c999505 Drugs Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:01:36 -0800 Comment by ellarosa no scorpion, you idiot, i was not saying that the people who are robbing convenience stores are productive. i'm challenging your assertion that cindy mccain, rush limbaugh or george bush are any more productive than those people, in the end run. bite me.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c1000243 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/shaming_that_addiction_away#c1000243 Drugs Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:13:43 -0800