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Instead, if prisoner's numbers increase, jail supremo Sheriff Joe Arpaio simply orders extra tents. Says the self-proclaimed Toughest Sheriff in America in one of his many media conferences: "I will build tents to house 100,000 people before I ever let anybody out of jail early. If I have to, I will put up tents from here to Mexico." All right then.Arizona has the harshest DUI laws in the United States. Not one other state comes remotely close to the severity of the penalties or the litmus test of whether you are legally drunk (.08 and you're gone). It has gotten to the point where you cannot have one PBR with granny and then drive home. If your blood metabolizes slowly after one drink and you are pulled over, you will be arrested and face a mandatory minimum of one to ten days in Tent City, $1,500 in fines plus legal fees, 16 hours of alcohol education classes at some asbestos-laced office only offered on weekends, a mandatory 90-day suspension of your driver's license, and the indignity of an interlock device installed in your car for one year. (You blow into a tube on that baby to start your car and then every 15 minutes thereafter to keep it running).
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