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...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...
...product of a 16-month, $1.4 million investigation by the Phoenix police and the Maricopa County attorney's office, the indictment charged the accused with accepting $370,000 from an undercover agent posing as a Las Vegas "gaming consultant" building support for casino gambling. Police say the sting began as an investigation of an illegal gambling network that had attracted the interest of organized crime. "We didn't know at the time how earth shattering it would be," said Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega, "until the evidence began to grow...
...Michael Spear took his own opinion and weighed it against biological facts," says Robert A. Witzeman, director of the Maricopa Audubon Society...
...crime to which Debra Ann Forster, 18, of Mesa, Ariz., pleaded guilty last week: leaving her two sons, ages six months and 18 months, alone in a sweltering apartment for nearly three days. The highly unusual sentence handed down by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Lindsay Ellis Budzyn: Forster must use birth control for the rest of her childbearing years...
Dukakis was well ahead in four of Arizona's voting regions, while he and Jackson were tied at 47 percent in western Maricopa County, which included south Phoenix and its high minority population...