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Nick Shirley, the independent journalist who exposed widespread welfare fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota, recently took to the streets of New York City to ask Americans about the rise of socialism in the United States.
And some of the answers he received were downright jaw-dropping.
'The idea of a criminal is like a little bit funny to me.'
While walking through Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Shirley approached a young woman sitting on a park bench. During their conversation, she described herself as "pretty pro-communism" and said she was "not certain what prisons are actually doing for our society."
“I’m pretty pro getting rid of prisons,” she added.
When Shirley asked where criminals would go if prisons did not exist, the woman replied, "Well, do I want criminals out in the open? Sure. I'm fine with that because the idea of a criminal is, like, a little bit funny to me."
Shirley then raised a more specific question, asking whether someone convicted of raping a woman should be free to walk the streets.
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"I think my answer is yes," she responded.
"I'm not sure, like, them going to jail is a solution to, like, whatever's going on inside their heart."
The woman added that she had been “raped,” explaining that she wouldn’t want the man to whom she referred to as her "rapist” behind bars either.
Another young woman whom Shirley interviewed leaned into the argument that communism has never truly been implemented.
"Communism as it is in the Marx-Engels ‘Communist Manifesto’ has never been implemented in society," she said, adding that China, the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela "aren't real forms of communism" but rather, in part, the "byproduct of American interventionism."
Shirley also spoke with a man working on his laptop, which displayed a sticker reading, "This machine kills fascists."
The man expressed his support for the rise of communism and socialist ideas in the United States, pointing to Greenwich Village's long history of embracing the ideology.
"I think it's a good thing," he said. "You're in the home of democratic socialists in Greenwich Village. This is where it began and where it's thrived ... and I hope it spreads through the country."
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When Shirley suggested that eliminating government fraud could free up resources without raising taxes, the man rejected the idea.
"Just because some thieves are stealing some stuff doesn't mean that we should stop the system and stop taxing people and stop helping people," he said. "Just because some people cheat doesn't mean you should wipe out the system."
Shirley cited a recent study by the Citizens Budget Commission that found New York lost nearly $11 billion in tax revenue over the past year as millionaires and billionaires relocated. But the man was unpersuaded.
"I don't believe those numbers. Everybody wants to be here, so there's no reason for them to leave."
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The president of the union representing corrections officers in the state of Michigan has called on Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to bring in members of the National Guard to ease staffing shortages at state prisons.
In a letter dated July 3, Byron Osborn, the president of Michigan Corrections Organization, laid out his members' plight, claiming that lengthy shifts and forced overtime have prevented officers from "a normal, healthy life with their families."
'It's just a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or killed.'
Osborn also blamed Whitmer — who once supported the "spirit" of efforts to defund police — for ignoring the problem. "Under your watch, state corrections officers continue to suffer unlike any other state employees ever have in the history of Michigan," he wrote.
"None of your other state employees are being subjected to these conditions."
Osborn also elaborated on the "dangerous" conditions at the state prisons, implying that Whitmer and other state leaders may have a distorted view of day-to-day life at correctional facilities.
"Contrary to what is commonly conveyed to the public, the state prisons are not pleasant facilities filled with well-treated officers that are churning out rehabilitated prisoners," Osborn said.
Instead, prisons are often overrun by gangs and "coddled" prisoners while officers are hamstrung by protocols issued by the Michigan Department of Corrections that limit "prisoner discipline" and use of segregation measures such as solitary confinement, Osborn said.
Osborn then invited Whitmer to visit the prisons and experience for herself the grueling conditions there. "I’ll gladly escort you inside several of your prisons so you can speak directly with your corrections officers, not the administration," Osborn said.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Michigan has approximately 33,000 state inmates dispersed among 26 different facilities. Of those, about half have a staffing shortage of 20% and about one-fifth have a shortage above 30%, Osborn alleged, often because of attrition.
"People are resigning in droves," Osborn claimed.
In 2022, Osborn mentioned the idea of bringing in the National Guard to address the shortage issues but stopped short of calling for it. Now, he says his members have reached the "point of desperation."
"On behalf of all the state corrections officers represented by our organization, I am formally requesting that you activate the Michigan National Guard to provide immediate custody support to prisons in dire need of it while we work directly with you to find realistic, permanent relief measures," he said.
Members of the National Guard were deployed to Michigan prisons several years ago to assist with COVID vaccinations. Should they be deployed in a security capacity, they likely will not be carrying weapons since most correctional officers in Michigan are not armed, though they have access to firearms for emergency use.
In any case, Whitmer and other state officials seem disinclined to acquiesce to Osborn's request for the National Guard. Though a spokesperson from her office did not respond to the Free Press' request for comment, MDOC claimed that the issue requires permanent solutions, not "temporary" fixes such as "National Guard members who have not been trained to operate in this environment."
"The Department and other stakeholders need to remain focused on efforts that can stabilize staffing in the long term, including promoting the benefits of a career in corrections," MDOC's statement continued. "These include having an active role in keeping their communities safe, serving in a role that can change lives, and the ability to reach annual maximum pay of $68,500 after just three and a half years of service."
But Osborn hopes leaders will reconsider the idea. "It's just a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt or killed," he said.
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Biden's DOJ sues Utah DOC for disability discrimination after prisoner castrates himself
The Department of Justice under the Biden administration has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the state of Utah and its Department of Corrections after a male prisoner who claims to be a woman surgically removed his testicles because his so-called "gender affirming" care had allegedly been denied or delayed.
The case relates to an unnamed Utah inmate who has been incarcerated since July 2021 for an unknown conviction. Though "a visual search of genitals" led prison officials to place the inmate in a men's prison, the inmate had allegedly already been suffering from "symptoms of gender dysphoria for many years," said a DOJ letter of findings released last month.
A formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria — which the DOJ argued is a disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act — was not made by a Utah DOC psychologist until June 2022 even though the inmate had been requesting gender-related medical intervention, including cross-sex hormones, since the previous September. When the hormones were eventually given, they were not done so "safely or effectively," the lawsuit claimed.
The inmate was also denied other "reasonable modifications" to UDOC's policies and practices, the DOJ claimed. According to the DOJ, those "reasonable modifications" include placement in a women's facility, the ability to purchase women's undergarments such as bras and panties at the commissary, and to be patted down or searched by a female rather than a male guard.
Finally, gender-related issues prevented the inmate from completing UDOC programs that would have helped him reduce his sentence, the lawsuit claimed.
Refusals to make these accommodations further exacerbated the inmate's gender dysphoria during his incarceration, the DOJ alleged. "By not allowing me this opportunity to live my life as a woman, who I believe I am and have lived life for many years, the prison is causing me such mental stress in the form of anxiety, depression," the prisoner wrote in a grievance filed with the ADA.
That anxiety and stress eventually caused the inmate to take matters into his own hands, the lawsuit indicated: "In May 2023, Complainant performed dangerous self-surgery and removed her own testicles, resulting in hospitalization and additional surgery."
The lawsuit seeks compensation for the inmate "for injuries caused by the ADA violations," improved treatment for the inmate's gender dysphoria, and a revision of policies and procedures to prevent similar forms of discrimination against the inmate and other gender-dysphoric prisoners.
"All people with disabilities including those who are incarcerated are protected by the ADA and are entitled to reasonable modifications and equal access to medical care, and that basic right extends to those with gender dysphoria," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. "The Civil Rights Division is committed to ensuring that jails and prisons throughout the country do not discriminate against people with disabilities, and that right includes people with gender dysphoria."
In response to the letter of findings last month, UDOC executive director Brian Redd claimed his agency was "blindsided" by the accusations listed in it. "We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on key issues, and are disappointed with their approach," he added.
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