Criminals Are Taking Control Over Our Prisons And Nothing Is Being Done

It’s always interesting when the news media, whose job is supposedly to keep us informed, fails to even mention one of the most important stories that’s unfolding in the country. As we’ve seen, the press will devote days of coverage to the plight of federal bureaucrats who can’t respond to a simple email. The idea appears to be that these bureaucrats, as government employees, are entitled to special protections, simply by virtue of working for the government.

But for reasons that no one has explained, these same mainstream media outlets have demonstrated no sympathy — or even the slightest interest — in the ongoing shutdown that’s unfolding in New York’s state prison system. Corrections officers in virtually every single one of New York’s prisons are now on a so-called “wildcat” strike, meaning a strike that’s not approved by the union or allowed by law. This is a strike that’s now in its second week. Nine out of ten corrections officers in the state have walked off the job, saying the working conditions have become extremely unsafe. Prison guards are now constantly being assaulted, and they’ve had enough. As a result, the National Guard has been called in, as part of a desperate bid to prevent a deadly prison takeover, like the one that led to mass casualties in Attica back in the 1970s.