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Jennifer Siebel Newsom and the boys next door at San Quentin

Surprise: California First Lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom is just as out of touch as her husband.

In what appears to be a years-old video clip making viral rounds on X this week, Siebel Newsom recalls sharing a moment with young adult inmates at the notorious San Quentin prison in Marin County, Calif.

“I told them about my own loss,” she said, referring to a 1981 incident in which Jennifer, then 6, killed her elder sister in a golf cart accident in Hawaii.

The convicts, she continued, “ultimately were accused of committing these violent crimes, and sentenced for life. And I think it shocked them that this blonde lady … had a similar story, and was perhaps in the wrong place at the wrong time –– but wasn’t punished the way they were, because clearly, it was an accident; but theirs was probably an accident, too.”

That’s a statement only a soft-on-crime liberal could make, or appreciate.

The death of 8-year-old Stacey Siebel more than 40 years ago was a tragedy, clearly.

But the suggestion that San Quentin inmates “probably” committed their crimes accidentally is bonkers.

While the left has rebranded San Quentin a “rehabilitation center” in recent years, the lockup has traditionally housed hardened, violent criminals –– including nearly all of those on death row in California until Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a moratorium on the state’s death penalty in 2019.

It’s preposterous to suggest that the prison, today, tends to confine nice young chaps who perhaps were “in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

What’s more: Since the state’s prison realignment in 2011, low-level and nonviolent offenders have been housed almost exclusively in local jails, not state prisons like San Quentin.

So again: These are not peaceable “accused” youngsters who deserve the same type of break a 6-year-old got for causing an accident on vacation.

The naive-at-best comments are not a good look for Siebel Newsom and her husband, who’s recently taken fire for enabling “elderly parole” for 50- and 60-something child predators.

These days, the progressive left broadly peddles leniency and 34th (or so) chances for even the most vicious criminals, and it’s a big reason the Democratic Party is widely viewed as out of touch and in some ways even dangerous to public safety.

One has to wonder if Siebel Newsom would want any of these convicts –– be they “elderly” sex offenders or the boy-next-door killer types at San Quentin –– living next to her family.

If she doesn’t, then why should they live next to any of ours?

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