Summary
Transcript
I mean, that’s astonishing. Again, Democrats exercising their lawless attitudes. Yeah, totally lawless. And if that doesn’t say a lot, and you can see that everywhere. I mean, I sent you some information on the court or the jail in Atlanta, Fulton County Jail. And I read through the documents that were done by some federal investigation on that court. I’ve never heard of a worst dungeon, disgusting, dirty, filthy, I mean, death ridden mess my whole life. And that’s the one where Trump was booked during the time he was in Atlanta. And so, you know, it looks like everything is falling apart that we’re degenerating into, into something that we used to read about and think, man, it can never happen here.
And it’s all around us. I don’t know what your experience with jails are, but, you know, where the deaths are so high and people were eating mold and the bugs, one man died of just bed bugs, he got eaten alive in his own room, but the rapes and they don’t have any more locking doors. So the prisoners are just open air free. And anyway, it’s, it’s not a place you definitely want to go. And yet they send young people there, you know, for periods of time, as you mentioned the other day, you know, when a guy gets arrested the first time, he’s already scared to death and then to end up in something like that.
Wow. What a nightmare. Yeah. Well, and, and Maricopa County jail has had 49 inmate deaths every year since the Democrat took over. Obviously that’s a place where people who feel so hopeless when they get arrested and so ashamed and their family finds out that they’re committing these crimes and living a double life that they see no reason to go on and they kill themselves. And it should be very difficult to kill yourself inside a jail. It should be very difficult. Can it happen? Yes. Should there be ways and protocols established to minimize that? Absolutely. And so I had experience with that, but it was like, I think we had two suicides in eight years, the years that I was sheriff and our jailers are trained to talk to people and fill them out and talk to them when they’re booked in and to keep talking to them and see, you know, usually you can see if somebody’s totally depressed that you get a week.
We bring in counselors or we send them to the hospital. We send them to go get help and we don’t want to treat any of these people cruelly in any way, in any way. It’s bad enough what they’re going through and compassion is still part of what we’re supposed to be doing as a jail, as jailers, as correction officers. And so, yeah, I hate hearing stuff about that. And I’ve already told Sheriff elect Sheridan that if he needs me to help him with that, that I would volunteer to take that assignment to find a way to decrease suicides.
But another problem they have in Maricopa County Jail is the influx of drugs coming in there. Some of these suicides are done with illegal drugs. This is another testament of the stupid drug war. We can’t even keep them out of prisons, you know? And so, yeah, anyway, I kind of take it as a personal challenge that I would love to go in there and try to rectify all of that and provide a remedy. One is I really care about people. I don’t want people to think that being arrested is life’s over. Life isn’t over. There’s a lot of people that have started ministries from jail and started self-help groups.
And so, yeah, I kind of want to do that, but we’ll see. I want Jerry to be able to get in there and get used to what he’s faced with. But let’s remember, he was there for 40 years. He can hit the ground running. So that’s another reason why I totally love the position that he’s in. He doesn’t have to get to know what the job is. He knows the job. Right. That makes a big difference. There’s an old saying about you can tell something about the culture and the nature of your environment by the way people’s prisoners are treated.
And, you know, it’s just awful. And if you can go in there and make some sort of difference there, there’s another little notch on your gun belt. You’ve tried to help out humanity. [tr:trw].