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Today, 07 November 2009

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Inmate-rights groups in the US are up in arms over a series of webcams at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Madison Street Jail in Arizona, after it was discovered that one of the cameras covered the female toilets, and the images were being broadcast on the Internet. The sheriff believes the cameras will curb crime.....

Sheriff Joe Arpaio was forced to turn off the offending camera after inmates-rights groups asked the Justice Department to investigate the camera setup for civil rights violations. Director of the Middle Ground inmates-rights group, Donna Hamm, said the camera was linked to pornographic web sites, and exploited women.

"I think he's potentially an international child pornographer," said Hamm of Arpaio, referring to the fact that some of the women in the holding cells are juveniles.

The images from four of Arpaio's webcams are broadcast on Crime.com, for the small price of submitting your email address and filling in a questionnaire. A warning beneath the images from the cams says: "This is a real life transmission of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Madison Street Jail. Instances of violence or sexually inappropriate behavior by detainees during the booking process may occur. Viewer discretion is advised."

Arpaio says his office doesn't receive any remuneration from Crime.com, but that the reason he has the cams available to the public is an effort to curb crime. Arpaio reasons that women would not want to commit crimes in his area for fear of their pictures being broadcast.

Arpaio has been called "the nation's toughest sheriff", for a variety of prison, uh, innovations. One of these is dressing all female inmates in pink underwear, while another is re-establishing chain gangs which sees the women donning old-fashioned striped convict outfits. He has also banned coffee, saucy movies and magazines with nude pictures.

The sheriff's office has said that the offending camera was merely "out of alignment", and they will investigate how this happened.

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