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California’s three-strikes law - 1994

3 Strikes and You're Out:

After 20 Years, Is the Law Working?

Video    Retro Report    The New York Times    2 December 2013

Retro Report - After the 1993 murder of a child,

many states passed laws

to lock up repeat offenders for life,

but today those laws are raising new questions

about how crime is handled in America.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=k_hTTiT0ATA

The Making of the ‘Three Strikes’ Laws

By Retro Report

NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002579045/the-making-of-the-three-strikes-laws.html

Three Strikes of Injustice

NYT    9 October 2012

Three Strikes of Injustice

Video    Op-Docs    The New York Times    9 October 2012

A documentary profiles Shane Taylor,

one of more than 4,000 nonviolent offenders

serving life in California prisons

under a three-strikes law.

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=pJotrsvQbNU&list=PL4CGYNsoW2iCb4uQUNgWK6TJJgNVp-MpP&index=72

serve life terms under California’s three-strikes law

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/us/
california-convicts-are-out-of-prison-after-third-strike-and-staying-out.html

1994 > California >

voters overwhelmingly pass the “three strikes” law

(in 1994),

California voters overwhelmingly

passed the “three strikes” law

that has come to symbolize America’s

deeply irrational and misguided obsession

with harsh and inflexible sentencing.

It set a life sentence for anyone

with a third felony conviction,

no matter how minor or nonviolent

— even for stealing a pair of socks.

The law contributed

to a dramatic increase

in California’s prison population,

which grew so far beyond capacity

that in 2011 the Supreme Court ruled

that horrendous prison conditions

violated the Constitution.

In 2012,

Californians voted to soften the law,

allowing prisoners whose third strike

was a nonserious and nonviolent crime

to seek early release.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/a-sentencing-commission-for-california.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/us/
california-voters-to-decide-on-sending-fewer-criminals-to-prison.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/
opinion/a-sentencing-commission-for-california.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/
booming/born-of-grief-three-strikes-laws-are-being-rethought.html

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=k_hTTiT0ATA - NYT - 2 Dec. 2013
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/
opinion/sunday/california-horror-stories-and-the-3-strikes-law.html

habitual offender laws

- also known colloquially as "three-strikes laws."

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/18/
925198663/black-man-serving-life-sentence-for-stealing-hedge-clippers-granted-parole

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