The Three Strikes law in California has resulted in over 7,000 prisons receiving a sentence of at least twenty-five years to life. The range of offenses to come under the umbrella of "any felony" is very wide, with 4,000 men and women, well over half of the total, given life sentences for nonviolent crimes. California is responsible for 92 percent to 94 percent of all three strikes sentences, and the only state to use this type of sentencing scheme to send minor offenders to prison for life.
Further, as a means to make the 3-strike law physically possible, increasing incarceration rates and lengthening sentences, CDC is using the illegal and all too often lethal practice of forcefully double celling prisoners into one man designed cells. Currently all single person designed cells throughout California are at an alarming 198% capacity, creating a barbaric gladiator type of environment through out the state.
Laws such as the 3-strikes law directly impact the rate of imprisonment but have no effect on the crime rate. The skyrocketing numbers of people in prison in the U.$. as a whole over the past 20 years have shown no relationship with the crime rate. Locking more people up, in increasingly dangerous and repressive conditions, is only serving the ends of social control and repression of the oppressed nations.
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