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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a subject of perennial controversy, put his prisons on lockdown last month after being faced with a hunger strike by inmates. The man who likens himself \u201cAmerica\u2019s Toughest Sheriff,\u201d called an end to the lockdown a day after the Goldwater Institute accused Arpaio of improperly clearing criminal investigations and reporting faulty statistics to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a result. The criticism follows an earlier claim by the institute last December that Arpaio\u2019s prioritization of high publicity immigration sweeps were undermining traditional law enforcement. Despite the fact that Arpaio has faced numerous lawsuits and even a federal investigation for racial profiling, the Maricopa County Sheriff has appeared prominently in the corporate media as a spokesperson on immigration. According to a new report in Extra! \u2013 the magazine of the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting \u2013 has appeared on cable news television twenty-one times over the past year. CNN has accounted for seventeen of those invitations. Conversely, the report also notes that as Sheriff Arpaio has been a frequent guest on cable news television, the voices of those who are directly affected by his policies have been woefully missing. <\/p>\n