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Criminal

Mar. 29, 2012

Three strikes is a crowd: California law fuels prison crisis

There seems to be little correlation to three strikes laws and a decrease in crime. By Jeffery A. Lowe


By Jeffery A. Lowe


The costly mess that is the California prison system has produced inmate strikes, violence and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that its teeming institutions are unconstitutionally cruel and inhumane due to overcrowding. This crisis is due in large part to California's three strikes law. Approved by voters in 1994 after the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, the law reflects the public's frustration with pervasive and seemingl...

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