Talarico’s ‘World Without Prisons’ Dream Would Be A Nightmare

In 2022, leftist Texas Senate candidate James Talarico jumped on board the defund-the-police train, arguing for diverting law enforcement funding to social programs. He told inmates at a behind-bars High School graduation ceremony that he wanted to see a “world without prisons,” and that he would work to “make prisons obsolete.”

“My experience as a teacher, as a legislator, and as a Christian tells me that birds don’t belong in cages. Children don’t belong in cages. People don’t belong in cages,” Talarico said in his Ferguson Prison graduation speech.

In the same speech the Democrat argued that, “Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And, yes, prison is violence.”

‘Immersed In A Hot Liquid’

You know what is real violence? Violence. Violence committed by many of the violent criminals serving time at the men’s prison in Midway, Texas, where a rising star in far-left Lone Star State’s politics gave his talk on how unfair the “system” is.

Prisoners like Carlnelus Delaney Simmons, a very violent man serving a 99-year sentence for murdering his girlfriend’s 16-month-old boy. According to prison records and the website Abuse Angels, Simmons “deliberately dipped” Jabraylon Quintez Bables “into a pot of boiling water.”

“Jabraylon survived the initial burning. But his suffering did not end that day. He spent the following 36 days fighting for his life. The burns caused catastrophic damage to his tiny body,” Abuse Angels notes on its website.

According to the case file, doctors reported that the nature of the burns indicated that the toddler had been “immersed in a hot liquid and that the burns were not accidental.”

“In the doctors’ opinion, it appeared the toddler had been immersed in the liquid wearing a diaper, which leaked a little causing the burn to his buttock, and had folded his body into a fetal position to protect himself,” court documents state. The physician who performed the autopsy agreed.

Would it surprise you to learn that Simmons had a long rap sheet filled with violent crimes and serious drug offenses before he landed at Ferguson for century sentence? The inmates record included a homicide conviction for killing a man in a bar fight in 1994.

A ‘Really Exciting’ Opportunity

Simmons and monsters like him have an advocate in the 37-year-old “progressive” politician who wants to be Texas’ next U.S. senator. This is, after all, the guy who, drunk on BLM madness in 2020, said the times presented a “really exciting” opportunity to “end the current situation of over-policing communities of color which has been in place in this country since its founding.”

The same guy who conveniently missed a vote on a state bill that would have denied bail to illegal immigrants charged with violent crimes. “Jocelyn’s Law” was named in honor of Jocelyn Nungaray, a pre-teen girl allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted and strangled to death by illegal aliens.

Talarico, too, voted against the Damon Allen Act, legislation named in honor of Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Damon Allen murdered by a a suspect out on bail. And he “proudly” chipped in campaign donations to an activist group urging the defunding of the Austin police department.

Perhaps Talarico has such a soft spot in his heart for criminals and antipathy for prisons and cops because he himself has had some trouble with the law.

As Fox News Digital reported earlier this month, Talarico was caught on tape chuckling about his church housing illegal aliens. The Senate candidate boasted about his church’s leftist credentials, including early activism for “LGBTQ rights.”

“We caught some attention by letting an atheist join our church in the 2000s, and then in the 2010s, again stirred some controversy by housing an undocumented family, a mother and son, who were close to being deported by ICE,” he says in the video.

The giddy admission may not sit well with a lot of Texans still dealing with the damage of four years of an open Southwest border under President Joe Biden’s term in office.

Harboring illegal aliens, “encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts,” is a federal offense.

The Senate candidate also posted a guide to help criminal illegal immigrants “fight back” against federal immigration law enforcement.

Talarico has also faced scrutiny over his campaign’s finance filings. Earlier this week NOTUS reported that the Democrat’s campaign has had to return north of $1 million in contributions that exceeded federal donation limits.

And, as The Federalist first reported, Talarico’s living arrangements stank of voter fraud — after he accused his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, of the same election law violations.

‘Dreaming is the First Step’

In his 2022 speech to his prison palls, Talarico said it may be hard to imagine a world without prisons. But then again, he said, it was once difficult to imagine a world without “telegrams and cassette tapes.”

“Dreaming is the first step,” he mused.

The dream for Talarico and his fellow leftist friends — defund the police, abolish ICE, close prisons, would be a nightmare for communities across the country. Ask the family of little Jabraylon Quintez Bables what setting murderers and drug dealers free would mean for a society immersed in violent crime.

But shutting down jails might just work out fine for a Senate candidate with a growing list legal troubles.

Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.