For more than 20 years, Tent City stood within a larger jail compound in an industrial area 10 minutes south of downtown Phoenix. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Arpaio, who proclaimed himself ‘America’s toughest sheriff’, showing detainees at the Tent City facility to the media in 2009. Facebook Twitter Pinterest An inmate’s sandal discoloured from pink to brown by the blistering summer heat at the Tent City jail. He won a $2m settlement over the death of Brian Crenshaw, a blind man who had an altercation with an officer inside Tent City. Another inmate, Phillip Wilson, died after a beating by other prisoners in Tent City the same year.

Source: The Guardian August 21, 2017 06:11 UTC