I worked at San Quentin and Soledad prison for a number of years and I can tell you from firsthand experience that many inmates serving life sentences under Californias three strikes law suffer unjustly. In conversations with administrators and correctional officers, they often justified the law referring to the "broken window" theory of law enforcement. "We know these are bad guys so we're going to get them off the street anyway we can." I cant speak with authority about all prisoners, but the men I worked with often had severe emotional problems as well as drug dependencies. Their third strikes were often attempts to get enough money to self-medicate. They needed help not incarceration.
Ron Greene, Ph.D.
Ron Greene, Ph.D.
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The New Zealanders cant understand why, if there are 3 million people related to a state prisoner, we are tolerating the three strikes law and allowing Conservatives to get elected in the first place. These are good questions.
Reform isn't something you wish for...
it's something you work for...writing
to editors, showing up to rallies and
hearings, recruiting others to write
and show up, registering the poor to
vote. Your enemies have no trouble at
all doing this simple work, which is
why they carry the jailer's keys.
B. Cayenne Bird
rightor1@yahoo.com
The New Zealanders cant understand why, if there are 3 million people related to a state prisoner, we are tolerating the three strikes law and allowing Conservatives to get elected in the first place. These are good questions.
Reform isn't something you wish for...
it's something you work for...writing
to editors, showing up to rallies and
hearings, recruiting others to write
and show up, registering the poor to
vote. Your enemies have no trouble at
all doing this simple work, which is
why they carry the jailer's keys.
B. Cayenne Bird
rightor1@yahoo.com
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