Word: maricopa
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...weren't aware of the Vipers, and that's what's surprising to us. We thought we were on top of things." What the Vipers may be is part of the shifting fringe of the disparate militia movement. These groups, says Richard Romley, chief prosecutor for Phoenix and Maricopa County, "pop up and go away sometimes overnight. They come into being and disperse. They don't want to be big because they worry about the focus that will be placed on them." Indeed, the Arizona Republic reports the Vipers may have broken away from the larger Alliance in Militias...
Methamphetamine use is especially prevalent in Western states. Meth-related hospital admissions rose 366% over 10 years in California. Arizona's Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, reports methamphetamine-linked crimes have jumped almost 400% in three years. And the drug is spreading rapidly across the U.S. In recent months, officials have seized huge shipments of methamphetamine originating in Mississippi and Tennessee...
...Arpaio's job title is sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. But as the man who oversees 5,900 inmates in the county jail, he might better be thought of as the headmaster of his own school of hard knocks. Since he came to the job early in 1993, Arpaio has organized his prisoners into chain gangs, housed them in tents in the scorching desert and made baloney a staple of their diet. Skin magazines and all broadcast TV stations have been banned. ("Too much violence,'' he says.) For free-time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns...
...Maricopa County is not alone. The hottest development in criminal justice is a fast-spreading impulse to eliminate anything that might make it easier to endure a sentence behind bars. Figuring that it makes no sense to use taxpayer dollars to help criminals pump up, several states have got rid of prison body-building equipment. Others have begun charging inmates for medications and infirmary visits that used to be free. One of the most popular restrictions is a ban on popular in-cell possessions like the one now in effect in Mississippi, where convicts are forbidden to have their...
...campaign planks. As part of his standard stump speech, Texas Senator Phil Gramm says he wants to make inmates work 10 hours a day. At every campaign stop he gets cheers with the line "We've got to stop building prisons like Holiday Inns.'' Gramm has talked about putting Maricopa County's Sheriff Arpaio in charge of the federal prison system...