Tent City

[Anonymous]

I've heard of, but have not experienced a certain jail in Arizona. IN THE USA and legal - Inmates, those sent by a judge(s) to a place called TENT CITY. Mind you, temperatures are well into the 100's 8 months out of the year.

No air-conditioning

Food consists of - well, GREEN BOLOGNA, not sure what they eat for breakfast, green eggs and ham.LOL!!

The male inmates wear PINK boxers

THey work on a CHAIN GANG in black/white stripe clothes in the heat.

NO personal growth outlets, including reading material.

No television or newspapers.

Supervised visitation for very short periods of time.

What is this world coming to when I read that VICTIMS of RTC's and schools whine about eating beans and rice because they are required to follow rules which will earn them other food. OR until they decide they've had enough and start working on issues. At least they have the opportunity to work on the issues! They say they're being abused - NOT! Most of the little darlings were eating chips and junk food prior to going, anyway. Beans and rice are not abusive, in my view. OR being in O.P. as a way to THINK about what got them in OP in the first place. Where does it say that a kid that is sent to OP SHOULD be around the others. You focus on the kid that went to OP, but not about the ones that would have to put up with the kids SHIT if he/she wasn't removed from them. THey have their arms pinned behind their backs while fighting with staff - police do it everyday as a way to protect themselves and others.

I am sharing the Tent City stuff because, if the kid lives in Arizona, there's a good chance they may be a guest of Joe Arpaio one of these days. Then, no matter what he/she writes to mommy and daddy, there is no more rescuing. They're on their own, literally, in HELL.  Funny thing is, criminals know they will go to Tent City, and choose to break the law anyway.  

Have a nice day.

[SilmarilOne]

What a load of rubbish.  So some adults in Arizona who have comitted felonies suffer harsh conditions for a set amount of time (whatever their sentence might be), therefore it is ok to violate the human rights of children, who may or may not have violated YOUR standards of behavior, whatever they might be, and to do so for an indefinite amount of time? Interesting.

The self-deception of some people is almost beyond belief.

[FaceKhan]

Lets not forget that Joe Arpaio is also the law enforcement officer that shut down a brutal bootcamp and has been vocal in support of trying its owner for the murder of a young boy who died in a bathtub in a motel after the camp refused him medical attention after he passed out from being forced to eat mud and dehydration from forced excercise in 100 degree heat dressed in black clothing.

Although the conditions at Tent City are unnacceptable, those adults did commit crimes and were justly convicted of those crimes. The reason Tent City exists is because the county there has no money to pay for an expansion of their jail.

However, Tent City is a public facility open to inspection and public scrutiny whereas the teen help industry is run in secret where the inmates are children and teens who have been convicted of no crime for which incarceration has been deemed necesary. They have no reprieve, no access to lawyers, or uncensored communication with family, friends. They are only permitted visitation and phone contact by parents and only after as much as a year or more with no contact at all.

You are trying to compare Apples and Aushwitz and it does not fool anyone.