Arizona: It's No Party in the County Jail

A tough sheriff's inmates live in tents, eat ostrich meat and wear pink undies

You can come to Arizona for spring training if you want, or for the golf, or for sunsets the color of umbrella cocktails. But the best show isn't listed in any travel brochures.

The bumbling ex-Governor may be on his way to prison for a fraud conviction, and the most popular future candidate is a Wild West sheriff with his own legal problems who rose to fame on the strength of such practices as dressing inmates in pink underwear. Exhibition baseball can't compete.

Take a recent chilly night in Phoenix. It's raining to end the world, and Maricopa County sheriff Joe...

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