NBA great Barkley begins 3-day sentence in Tent City

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Source: CNN

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Basketball great Charles Barkley began serving a three-day sentence in Arizona's infamous Tent City on Saturday, jailed by the same sheriff whose autobiography he endorsed 12 years ago.

"You come here when you screw up," Barkley said at a news conference hours after he reported at the Maricopa County jail. "I don't blame anybody for this situation but myself."

At the news conference, Barkley sat next to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed "Toughest Sheriff in America." Arpaio is known for giving inmates old-fashioned, black-and-white-striped uniforms, making some of them live in tents and reinstituting chain gangs, even for women.

"I'm an equal incarcerator," Arpaio said of Barkley, who will be sleeping in one of the tents. "We don't discriminate."

He said Barkley has been "a gentleman, cordial."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/03/07/barkley.jail/index.html

[Zavulon]

1. Wow, three whole days?

That ought to teach him. :eyes:

[Syrinx]

2. that's turrible

:)

[Syrinx]

3. I still like Sir Charles better than Arpaio

[HelenWheels]

4. Arpaio does discriminate

Barkley is in his own little tent and not bunked in with other inmates. Arpaio said it would be favoritism if Barkley were in a private cell. He's also going to be called upon to talk to the other inmates about how not to get involved in breaking the law. Wonder if he is wearing the striped prison garb and pink underwear.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Not in the stripes

he's supposedly in a red/blue sweatsuit and supposedly because he's considered to be in "work release". :eyes:

[crikkett]

6. isn't arpaio under investigation? PS Barkley's jailed for drunk driving. n/t

[47of74]

7. Arpaio is an equal opportunity...

Pig.
Idiot.
F#@*er.

I could go on for quite a while.

[jeff30997]

8. Please do.

I truly hate that MOFO and all the others like him.

[burning rain]

9. Three days, *snork*.

Jail's pretty much for the poor in this great land of ours.