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24 years ago republican joe arpaio was the top cop in arizona's maricopa county and became famous, some would say infamous, for his harshness. troubling set of facts, he ran out outdoor jail called tent city. arpaio himself described it as a concentration camp. they faced heat in the summer and near freezing chill in the winter. they wore pink underwear, they ate green colored baloney, allegedly. but that was nothing. under arpaio there are also chain gangs for men and women, conditions that rights groups called inhumane, overcrowded and dangerous. remember this was a jail not a maximum securi...

. all right. the man calls himself america's toughest sheriff. will he become america's toughest senator? joe arpaio was the top cop in arizona's maricopa county and became famous, some would say infamous for his hashness. he ran an outdoor jail called tent city, arpaio himself described it as a concentration camp. inmates exposed to the scorching heat of peeks summers and near freezing chill in the winter. they wear pink clothes but that was nothing. they were also chain gangs, conditions that rights groups called inhumane, overcrowded and dangerous. this was a jail, not a maximum security ...

Chain gangs. i want to mention your legal case and give you a chance to respond. ultimately it cost over $48 million to the taxpayers. as you know, the cases involved detaining people without what a judge said were cause as well as accusations of racial profiling. do you stand by all of that or do you think being held in contempt by a judge shows that some of that was over the line? >> first, we run one of the best jail systems in the country according to the u.s. department of justice and others when you went through that litany that was put out by an independent newspaper called the phoenix ...

Because of the potential for a coordinated riot effort. so things are getting tight. you know. all across the state. >> are some of these cool hand luke kind of prisons, they're work camps, chain gangs still active there and used add punishment? >> no. we don't have the chain gangs, but we have work, you know, a lot of work camps. boot camps. there's a lot of community release and that's the lower security inmates that are working those and now, they're moving, they're sending them back into the prisons with the higher security folks, so, they're hoping that everyone keeps literally keeps thei...

And life's beautiful moments.ns get between you flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. it helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause symptoms. pills block one and 6 is greater than 1. flonase changes everything. welcome back. in this week's welcome back. we'll look at the turbulent career of sheriff joe arpaio who was just pardoned by president trump. he came to national prominence in the early 1990s for building a tent city as a way to get tough with prisoners in overcrowded jails. he forced prisoners to wear pink underwear, work on chain gangs and served green balo...