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 ...
The case — along with the 1992 murder of 18-year-old Kimber Reynolds, shot by a parolee trying to steal her purse — gave ...
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 ...
The Government is subverting parliamentary process on laws the evidence already shows ... failures and misbehaviours. “The first three strikes bill was a failure and the proposed changes to ...
“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 ...
Thousands more offenders are likely to be captured under the Three Strikes rule, following changes by Cabinet to toughen up the new regime. It's lowering the threshold for a first strike warning ...