> The New Yorker did a lengthy & excellent piece on the California law
> years ago. As far as I can remember, the guy that killed Polly Klaas was
> a repeated violent offender who had been furloughed to relieve prison
> overcrowding after they passed mandatory minimums for drug possession.
> In other words, a violent felon was released to make room for people
> caught with a nickel bag of pot. Then he killed a little girl. I believe
> Polly's father later spoke out against these kinds of policies, either
> mandatory minimums or the three-strikes law, I can't remember which.
> What was the documentary that you saw? Was it the Frontline piece?
I don't know about Jordan, but that's the one I saw. He never repudiated any of his tough-on-crime enthusiasm in that show.
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