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| Sheriff Arpaio. pink underwear |
Arizona’s Maricopa
County sheriff Joe Arpaio is known
for a number of controversial actions, especially against immigrants and hispanics, by
detaining without crimes and punishing without conviction.
The U.S Justice Department has found that
Arpaio and his department has violated civil rights laws.
Sheriff Arpaio likes to show his toughnesss
by housing inmates in open air tent cities and, further, humiliates male inmates
by forcing them to wear pink underwear.
The sheriff was sued after 2001 death of a mentally ill man
who was forced to wear pink underwear.
Now, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals thinks forcing
inmates, not convicted of a crime, to wear pink underwear may be unconstitutional.
"Unexplained and undefended, the dress-out in pink
appears to be punishment without legal justification,"
Apparently, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed jail
officials to use unpleasant measures if they are legitimately concerned about
the safety. However, according to a high court ruling, purposeless requirements
can not be imposed on people who have not been convicted of a crime.
It would be better if Sheriff Joe Arpaio gave up his
obsession with pink underwear and, instead, stuck to traditional, time honored law
enforcement procedures.
A man who wants to see other men in pink underwear is
revealing something about himself.
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Reference
Yahoo news: Arizona
sheriff's pink-underwear policy
