"01 NOVEMBER 1999  - PHOENIX, ARIZONA, USA: A detention officer in the Maricopa Country Jail in Phoenix, AZ, inspects women prisoners who are on the county's chain gang before taking them out on the streets to perform public service clean up. Maricopa county sheriff Joe Arpaio claims to have the only women's chain gang in the United States. He has been criticized for the chain gang but claims to be an ""equal opportunity incarcerator."" He has said that if puts men on a chain gang he will also put women on a chain gang. © Jack Kurtz  WOMEN   PRISON   CIVIL RIGHTS  SOCIAL ISSUE"
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