Before the Simans watched the prison in the center of the Jungle of Florida, before Ron landing decided to make migrants between crocodiles and mud, there was already a man who turned the penitentiary system into a car for punishment and humiliation. His name: Joe ArpayoField
The sheriff of more than two decades in the district of Marikop, Arizona, Arpayo did not need a jungle or reptiles to sow fear. There were enough of them Campaign shops under the sun of deserts, rotten food and pink underwearThe field of his prison was an experiment on institutional cruelty, reality -show of pain in real time.
Sheriff with pleasure punishment
From his first term, Arpayo made it clear that I did not want to rehabilitate anyone. I wanted to punish. And if they were migrants, better. He pursued Latin American with mass raids, he stopped them without firm evidence and made them a parade with shackles, as if it were a show.
“Here you have it … The most difficult sheriff in America“He answered Jordi Evole in 2010, when he was asked if he considers himself a racist, a Nazi or simply ruthless.
His open air prison, known as the tent city, was an impromptu punishment. The prisoners slept in rusty beds without ventilation, at a temperature that reached 50 degrees. If someone complained, the answer was always the same: “This is not a hotel. This is a prison. ”
Trump forgave him, landing repeats him
In 2017, when Arpayo was convicted of contempt for ignoring court orders to stop his racist raids, Donald Trump provided him with the pardon of the presidentThe field was not a punishment, it was a tribute. He called him the “hero of law and order.”
AND This is a legacy, instead of burying, threw rootsToday, Ron landing, the governor of Florida and one of Trump’s political heirs, resumed the ARPAio leadership. His version: prison in the middle of the jungle surrounded by kaimansThe field of migrants were arrested in isolated facilities, without regular access to visits, services or lawyers. A more thoughtful place to scare than to rehabilitate.
Alcatraz de Los Caimanes: continuation or continuation
The prison of Florida was already called nicknames ‘Aligator alcatraz’And not only because of his location. Like in horror films Kaimans act as a natural barrier… and as a symbol. Wild. From the inhospitable. Cruel.
But in fact, this is not a new story. Is Unfinished prequel Systems that worked before when Arpayo controlled an iron fist and contempt for human dignity.
