Liza
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>From: Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: incarceration unsustainable?
>Date: Tue, Mar 9, 1999, 9:59 PM
>
>Liza Featherstone wrote:
>
>> though-- a recent national study (done by the Sentencing Project I think)
>> showed that of the many states that have recently passed 3-strike laws, only
>> California actually uses them
>
>Not exactly. It's just that California has the most wildly
>indiscriminate form of 3-strikes law (passed as an initiative, natch),
>under which folks have gotten 25-to-life sentences for stealing pizzas &
>such.
>
>Nonetheless, there is some discretion at the country prosecutor level,
>and it turns out that those who use it least have seen the largest
>reductions in crime, one of the major fincings in a just-released report
>"Striking Out: The Failure of California's 'Three Strikes and You're
>Out' Law", just out [released on the web 1 week ago today] from the
>Justice Policy Institute at http://www.cjcj.org/jpi/strikingout.html
>
>--
>Paul Rosenberg
>Reason and Democracy
>rad at gte.net
>
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