‘Mass incarceration’ is not a problem, but career criminals are

Published September 8, 2025 2:40pm ET



Democrats have made fighting “mass incarceration” their focus on criminal justice. The result is the constant release of violent career criminals who would be kept behind bars by properly enforced “three-strikes” laws.

We have video from the Aug. 22 murder of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian refugee who fled Vladimir Putin’s invasion only to be murdered on a light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was stabbed multiple times by Decarlos Brown Jr., a career criminal who attacked her entirely at random as she minded her own business in her seat on the train. Brown has been arrested more than a dozen times and has a rap sheet that includes armed robbery, felony larceny, and breaking and entering. After serving five years for that armed robbery, he was released in 2020 and arrested five months later for assault.

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