That's a good thing, since Arpaio’s 24-year tenure as sheriff of Arizona’s largest county was marked by rampant abuses of power. He cost the county millions of dollars in lawsuit payouts for ...

Arpaio had the praise covered. As you may recall, the former sheriff was convicted in 2017 of contempt of court in Arizona for defying court orders and proceeding with an anti-immigration ...

Maricopa County’s new sheriff will close a controversial tent jail ... said it was time to move on from Arpaio’s policies. “The days of Arizona being a place where people are humiliated or abused or ...

Christine Wee, an ACLU of Arizona attorney representing the plaintiff ... “When you were employed by Sheriff Arpaio, you were seen like the right hand.” Several speakers cited Sheridan ...

and the constitutional sheriff movement owes a lot to Joe Arpaio in many ways. Arizona's criminal and prison systems were set up to be tough and cheap, as they say, in terms of policing and ...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio left most students and the professor of a justice and social inquiry class shocked by a comment, which the majority of students in the lecture deemed racist. Michael ...

A student in a justice studies class received an apology Monday from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the sheriff referred to him as "the football player" during a lecture delivered to the ...

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton last week implored Trump not to pardon controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio during his Arizona visit arguing that it would cause further division in a time of mourning after ...

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