t should go without saying that Arpaio is a terrible candidate for a pardon. 

If you have any doubts, read this chilling 2009 profile of Arpaio by William Finnegan in The New Yorker. 

Arpaio’s first claim to local fame was to make the conditions of imprisonment for inmates under his jurisdiction as inhumane as possible — housing thousands of people in tents next to cites like dumps and waste disposal plants in the brutal Arizona heat. 

He fed inmates for 30 cents a meal, two meals a day, and then made the Food Network one of three channels available to prisoners. 

He put many people who were being held for trial and had not been convicted of any crime to work on chain gangs. 

Under his watch, guards were so consistently cruel to inmates that the county had amassed more than $40 million in civil damages from lawsuits. 

And he also engaged in egregious racial profiling when detaining people suspected of being illegal immigrants.