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Criminal

Jan. 27, 2000

Large as Life

California's three-strikes law does not substantially reduce crime. Instead, many nonviolent, small-time criminals are being incarcerated for life - offenders the law never intended to target. And the continued enforcement of the law means first-time violent offenders may continue to serve only a portion of their sentence to make room for the nonviolent repeat offenders sentenced to life in prison.

By Harvey Gee
        California's three-strikes law does not substantially reduce crime. Instead, many nonviolent, small-time criminals are being incarcerated for life - offenders the law never intended to target. And the continued enforcement of the law means first-time violent offenders may continue to serve only a portion of their sentence to make room for the nonviolent repeat offende...

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