Arizona sheriff’s pink-underwear on male inmates may be illegal

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.

Grand Canyon bans bottled water sales, March 10

Grand canyon

Plastic used in bottled water is one of the biggest wastes created by humans. Despite efforts to recycle the material, an enormous amount of plastic waste causes handling problems.

Our national parks are having their own share of headaches due the plastic bottles brought and discarded by people visiting these parks. 

The National Park Service (NPS) will ban sales of bottle water in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, starting March 10, 2010. NPS has spent about