There is nothing surprising that National Public Radio has produced a piece deploring overcrowding in a person. The irony is that NPR has not a word to say about the fact that it is a fact that illegal immigrants into California are a contributing cause to that overcrowding.
It is ironic that National Public Radio finds fault with the public employees union. Undeniably the facts set forth by National Public Radio in this article about the explosive growth in the census and cost of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association are shocking but this might be the first time in the history of NPR that it has had bad word to say about any public employees union. One might not be surprised to know that the union is a law enforcement union.
The article deplores the overcrowding and blends it partially on tough laws passed at the behest of Governor Wilson and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association including "three strikes and you're out" legislation. Again, the article fails to connect these laws to a rising crime wave in California and fails to connect the rising crime wave to the influx of illegal immigration and attended crime has generated. NPR certainly does not connect its own position on immigration amnesty with any of this.
The article deplores the inadequate training programs of the prison and cites the illiteracy rate. Faithfully keeping liberals absolute faith in education, the article concludes criminals will return to crime because they are not rehabilitated in prison. It would never occur to National Public Radio that they are imprisoned in the first place because their characters are such that they are criminals. They are imprisoned for want of character and they failed to read in school for a want of character. They are not in prison because they could not read. There are in prison because they are criminals and they did not learn to read because they have a criminal mentality
The article talks about the races in the prison but fails categorically to describe the rigid segregation and low-grade warfare that exists in American prisons among the races. The article fails to connect the larger census in our prisons with the failure of the war on poverty and the tragic failure of social welfare programs put in place primarily to assist the African-American "community." NPR does not raise the question whether there is a commonality in the failure of integration in the prisons and the failure of the federal spending programs. NPR does not consider the condition of the former to be proof of the failure of the latter. NPR believes that the same thinking which brought about this state of affairs is precisely the kind of thinking that will cure it.
Indeed, problems in Fulsom prison and all the prisons in California and elsewhere are but metaphors for the failure of all the policies that NPR has favored and seen imposed on America in the last half-century. The prison is a symptom of problems generated by people who listen to National Public Radio.
