When California voters adopted the “three strikes” law in 1994, they accelerated a chain of events that ultimately led to unconstitutional state prison overcrowding and a federal court order ...
The coalition government is toughening up its new 'three strikes' law, saying it has received that the original version did not go far enough. More than 760 individuals or groups submitted to the ...
Demands for tougher laws and harsher penalties for criminal behavior are almost universal. In 1994, California enacted the nation’s most arduous version of a strict “three-strikes” law, which mandates ...
Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee is defending the coalition government's new 'three strikes' law, saying if violent criminals are "locked up in prison" they will not be in communities ...
A man who shot and injured a security guard at a San Francisco grocery store in 2022 has been convicted of multiple crimes ...
“It is not clear that the Three Strikes law has increased public or victim safety, and there is no evidence that continuing to limit judicial discretion and availability of rehabilitative ...