Oh, Wacky Washington! I’m not talking about D.C., which is downright dysfunctional. I’m talking about “the other Washington”.

According to this from Ari Hoffman of The Post Millennial, Jay Inslee’s great state of Washington does it again. Now, the Washington Department of Corrections is celebrating the closure of a prison.

Larch Corrections Center in Clark County, a medium-security prison that holds 240 inmates. The closure is in response to what the DOC claims is a decreasing prison population. According to the department, despite the massive amount of crime, only 70 percent of the beds in the agency’s 12 prisons in the entire state are occupied.”-Ari Hoffman, The Post Millennial

Boy, oh-golly, gee! I wonder why that is?!

We already have one of the lowest rates of incarceration in the nation. DOC has worked diligently to lower recidivism rates, create better neighbors and ensure that incarcerated individuals don’t return to us once they get out. Of course, our continued success means we can no longer afford to operate all of the prisons we currently have.”-DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange

Read: DOC and the progressive lawmakers of Washington State want to clear out the prisons. They don’t care where they go when they get out. They don’t care if the incarcerated sex offender who likes little elementary school girls goes out into the neighborhood you and your young daughter live in to offend again. I mean, they’ve “worked diligently” to lower those recidivism rates. They don’t care if mentally ill individuals and criminals get sprung and are living on the streets in drug-infested homeless encampments amongst some legit people who have fallen on hard times. Politics wins over public safety, apparently.

What’s next for the State of Washington? Perhaps freeing Level 3 sex offenders from the Perv Palace (McNeil Island) near Tacoma? Jay Inslee and Bob Ferguson have a plan. A plan to apparently pepper the perverts throughout the state. Why the hell should they be confined when the rest of us were told to stay home and stay scared in 2020? We must have sympathy for these people. They’ve been locked up for so long. We don’t want to be those kind of people, now do we?

Does anyone else find it humorous that Washington DOC Secretary, Cheryl Strange, also sounded off on solitary confinement in prisons?

The research is clear on solitary confinement. It causes long-lasting harm. While it can be an effective way to deter violence, spending prolonged periods of time in isolation has devastating effects on an individual’s mental and physical health long after they leave our facilities.”-Cheryl Strange, DOC

Really, Cheryl? Locking yourself up alone, in your house, in fear, away from loved ones, causes long-lasting harm. Locking kids up in their homes for a year and a half (in Washington State), away from socialization with their peers because of the same (manufactured) fear causes long-lasting harm. Depriving kids of an education, because-fear-causes long-lasting harm. Depriving the elderly of seeing their grandchildren, causes long-lasting harm (honestly, it may have been what killed our seniors). But isn’t it cute how the Democrats in this state want to nurture and accommodate criminals? Can’t have them locked up now, can we? That would be unfair. Whatever is the point of incarceration, anyways? Release the inmates!

Then, three years later, say you’re closing the prisons because you have an “amazingly low incarceration rate” and it costs too much money to keep ’em open. Yes, we see what you all did here. Truth be told, law enforcement in most Washington cities cannot do squat to arrest anyone for violent acts or vandalism or grand theft auto anymore, either. And, forget about drug possession. There are loopholes. Got fentanyl? No problem!

And, in this happy land of the tall evergreen trees, passive-aggressive, virtue-signaling liberals, the flying rainbow flags, the masked androgyny and the snow-covered mountaintops that we know as Washingtonland, who needs prisons? Ridding the country of the school-to-prison pipeline is amazeballs, too, I tell you. Who needs prisons in Washington when kids don’t even get discipline, detention or suspensions at school anymore? The result of the lack of consequences? Brace yourselves for this one. We have kids committing crimes:

It does make you wonder where the system is failing, doesn’t it? Jay Inslee and DOC Secretary Cheryl Strange think closing Larch Corrections Center and others throughout the state is a win. Perhaps it is, for the prisoners. They’ll be free to roam-breaking into homes, stealing cars, doing fentanyl in the streets and lurking at the neighborhood park sniffing bicycle seats. Oh, yeah. Need I mention that they are not sending these prisoners to locales up in the San Juan islands or to Mercer Island, or to any affluent, blue, elitist neighborhood. They are sending them to Tenino and other small towns in red counties.

How much damage can Jay Inslee do in his last term? Hold my bitter pint of Northwestern IPA, please.

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