The state’s three-strikes law ends the lives of even low-level offenders. Trust me, I know
When the three-strikes law was being first considered back in 1993, there was a lot of debate about just how this law would be used. For what kinds of crime and on what kinds of criminals? One of the concerns people raised about this law was its potential for abuse, that over time the bar could be lowered, striking out those with less and less serious offenses: Drug addicts and alcoholics who commit crimes due to their addictions, for example, but generally not the worst of career criminals. ...