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Here is the latest...DMX is now on lockdown.
Earl Simmons, the rapper better known as DMX, was moved from Tent City to a solitary cell, where he will spend 23 hours a day, following a verbal altercation with Maricopa County Sheriff's detention officers on Sunday. The rapper will likely remain for the next month, said Lt. Brian Lee, a sheriff's spokesman. DMX was serving his 90-day sentence with more than 2,000 other inmates in Tent City until Sunday, when he refused to report for his designated job in the jail. It wasn't the first time Simmons refused to work, Lee said. Later in the day, Simmons did not appear at the designated time to receive medication from jail staff, and became agitated when he showed up an hour later demanding medicine, Lee said. A supervisor tried to intervene, and Simmons launched into a profanity-laced tirade, Lee said, resulting in the lockdown order. Simmons was sentenced in late January to 18 months supervised probation and 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to cruelty to animals, theft and two drug counts. -The Arizona Republic Here was my original Blog...
Sheriff Joe Arpaio runs a prison in Maricopa County where inmates wear pink underwear, work in chain gangs and live in tents. During the summer of 2003, when outside temperatures exceeded 110 °F, Arpaio said to complaining inmates, "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths." They get fans and water in the tents. That's it.
Tent City has been criticized by groups contending these are violations of human and constitutional rights.
Here is why I am blogging about Sheriff Arpaio. Rapper DMX (and repeat offender) is going to Arpaio's Tent City. According to Arpaio, DMX is serving time for charges of animal cruelty, drugs and fraud.
DMX now has to wear pink underwear and socks with the rest of the inmates. The wardrobe caught DMX by surprise. He said, "This is ridiculous, this is disrespectful." DMX added, "This is not where I want to be. It used to be, I'll go there (prison), I'll be the life of the party, and ... it's nothing."
When Arpaio heard this, he added that jail was not supposed to be fun.
Here is my take on the issue. I am not saying prisoners should be beaten and I am not saying that inmates cannot be rehabilitated. But DMX is *back* behind bars because he has no respect for animals or society. Yet he feels that this is "disrespectful" to him? Too many people in our society think they "deserve" respect. No, DMX. You have to earn it like the rest of us. So I say, go Arpaio, go! Arpaio is right, jail is not suppose to be fun and it is not suppose to be somewhere you want to go back to (on our dime)! So stop breaking the law, DMX!
What do you think about Arpaio and his policies? Or does DMX deserve white underwear in prison?
Christine
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