And do they deserve anymore than what they get? Nobody is making them eat.

Pretty snarky article.
The comments are very negative and hateful against a wonderful patriot, Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

New Times is a weekly free alternative rag. No one reads it.

I am sorry, but he shouldn´t be making a big deal about a lousy 5 cents extra cost per meal. That is just stupid. He agrees that the inmates should be able to have a Thanksgiving meal, so why is he apologizing for the cost?? So much money is often wasted elsewhere...it just make Arpaio look bad when he makes a big deal over nothing.

If you want to buy them dinner, feel free, Matthew.

Green baloney can be dressed up to look almost like turkey.

Turkey´s a relatively cheap meat, though. If Arpaio´s worried about the cost, he can have his staff research suppliers and maybe save a little money.

Yet another leftard´s head exploding.

They´re in jail, ferhevvinsake, not at Grandma´s house. Jeez.

Doesn´t sound like a legitimate news source.

The Phoenix New Times is a free, weekly Phoenix, Arizona newspaper, put out every Thursday. It is the founding publication of the New Times Media (now Village Voice Media), but The Village Voice is now the flagship publication of that company.

The paper was founded in 1970 by a group of students at Arizona State University, led by Frank Fiore, Karen Lofgren, Michael Lacey, Bruce Stasium, Nick Stupey, Gayle Pyfrom, Hal Smith, and later, Jim Larkin as a counterculture response to the Kent State shootings in the spring of that year. Gary Brennan played a role in its creation. According to the 20th Anniversary issue of the New Times, published on May 2, 1990, Fiore suggested that the anti-war crowd put out its own paper. The first summer issues were called the Arizona Times and assembled in the staff´s La Crescenta apartments across from ASU. The Arizona Times was renamed the New Times as the first college issue went to press in September 1970.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_New_Times

I guess this ace crack reporter, Matthew Hendley has never heard of liability insurance.

Thank you #9. Someone recently asked why so much worthless garbage is being posted recently and I responded that it´s obvious this salon has become a place to incessantly b*tch. I guess it´s reached the point where articles from gay publications are now legitimate. I´ll do a little research for publications like Beastiality Weekly or Scatology Reporter and post their wisdom.

The Phoenix New Times a drug-culture, hippy infested, liberal rag.

It is a free local scandal sheet that caters to the college and "hip" crowd.

It languishes in newsstands all over the Phoenix area.

So, the reporter seems to think jail should be more like Club Med than an incarceration institution for law breakers? If they want a fine T-giving meal, they should do all they can, like most of us, to avoid breaking the law and ending up in jail! Desiring to get fine T-giving meals is not why people go to jail.

As for the crazy that died in jail and family got the 3.5 settlement - Arpaio had nothing what-so-ever to do with that settlement and more than likely, the settlement is not settled- it is in negotiation! They never get what is awarded- the two parties enter negotiation to reach something more practical- (I have seen 6 million settled down to fifty grand!)

If you take the tour of Alcatraz, you find out that the convicts were entitled to food that met Bureau of Prisons standards: nutritious, and attractively presented. Alcatraz housed the worst of the worst. Why should a jail, which holds some prisoners who have not yet even been convicted of a crime, treat its prisoners worse than Alcatraz?

If Thanksgiving dinners only cost 5 cents more than baloney sandwiches,then why not serve them everyday? How much more is a roast beef dinner,10 cents more.

If these people weren´t some variety of criminal they could be on the streets eating what they want. They have no reason to bit*h if they´re lawbreakers.

No more than welfare recipients complaining about a $1.30 a day on food stamps.I check food stamp carts all the time. Most of the time I see 6-8 bottles of soda in there.If they´re buying soda instead of food,that´s their tough luck.Fat laden sausages are another fav of the food stampers.Why isn´t this kind of stuff banned if they´re concerned about obesity?

I´m in a particullarly judgemental mood today, so.....

#8 made me LOL!
#11 DON´T YOU DARE!
#14 You nailed it ! ;-D

If there is true justice, these bleeding hearts will be the next victims of those in Joe´s lockup. Tried to use the Phoenix New Times to line the kitty litter box but the cat wouldn´t even go near it. says it all.