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Housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure dont want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons arou...

The striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure dont want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. its all this r...

The striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure dont want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. its all this r...

Like anything else, every day we take a look at our own selves and say, i want to be a person that is helping the cause and not coming against it. >> you grew up in mississippi? >> i did. kelly, i am two generations short from maids and farmers. its because of my father, the late reverend james thomas mcclowen, that my mother got to go to high school. he built the first black high school in mississippi, my town. we have a long way to go. my father worked heavily to help integrate schools in miss...

Arizona. he wants to reinstate chain gangs and limit inmate meals and thats far from what you want to do. >> certainly thats one way to do the job, there are a lot of ways to do it. our community expects us to be collaborative, connective and imaginative. we do have officers who incredibly serve as theyre working their jobs in the field. but most of the contacts police have and progressive policing today requires a police officer to truly be communicative and to loses some of the badge heaviness...

Some inmates say they prefer being out on the chain gang to sitting in jail. >> sometimes it gets to the point where you lose your mind. but if you get out here, you get fresh air. not crammed up inside like youre going crazy. >> the new sheriff told us his goal is to send a message to the community. >> this is crime prevention tool that screams out to a child that drives by or to a young teenager driving by and said, dont come to jail. you dont want to be in brevard county jail. >> the inmate o...

The countys policies toward illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on its practices. such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the o...

Such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure dont want it to be a hilton ho...

Known for its harsh and sometimes brutal history, chain gangs are a long thing of the past. well, having been phased out of prisons in the 1960s. but one south carolina sheriff wants to bring them back. chuck wright joins me now from spartanburg county in south carolina. sheriff, welcome. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for inviting me. >> you believe chain gangs could be a positive thing for both community and inmates. why is that? >> i think that we can call it a chain gang or a ...

Im not into treating any human being badly. just asking people who drain our society to pay back. all im asking them to do is basically yard work like most americans do every day. im not trying to suggest they are less of a human whatsoever. i still believe in the programs you put them in to get their education, to let them have their religious beliefs. i believe in all that stuff. i understand these are someones children. >> there are still a few chain gangs in existence. most notably in marico...