Let’s face it, there’s never been a better time to be incarcerated. With a nasty recession outside, the prospect of centralized heating and air, three meals a day and at least an hour for physical activity isn’t the worst set up in the world. Plus, think of all the crafts you can do! Well, now there’s yet another reason to consider crime as a serious life choice, at least in Arizona. According to this report in the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, spotted by the eagle-eye of SbB’s own NFC Championship Correspondent Tuffy, celebrity sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to waive his strict TV regulations to show all of Maricopa County’s 10,000 inmates Sunday’s NFC Championship Game.

(Six months with this lunatic and you have to watch the NFC Title Game.)

Arpaio is known for his tough stance on prison conditions, but it’s hard to find anything too harline in buckling to Arizona football fever, which truly was an oxymoron until two weeks ago. While gaining notoriety for making inmates wear pink underwear, forcing some to live in a Tent City and webcasts of the arrest of pre-trial detainees. Think Cops shown live on the web, on steroids. Iceland, for one, has refused to return criminals to Maricopa County because of the prison’s conditions, instead deciding to grant asylum.

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Sidney Lowe II, son of N.C. State basketball coach Sidney Lowe, pleaded guilty to six counts of armed robbery, six counts of kidnapping and several drug-related offenses on Monday.

According to a forensic psychiatrist, the elder Lowe was too busy coaching a sub .500 basketball team to provide his son with the kind of upbringing needed to keep a kid out of jail. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER reports “Moira F. Artigues, a forensic psychiatrist from Cary, told a judge that Sidney Lowe II’s childhood left him ill-prepared for college life at N.C. A&T State University in Greensboro.”

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