Softer California three-strikes law would save on older inmates

[Shadow]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A ballot measure aimed at California's infamous "three strikes" sentencing law may be an opportunity for the state to put a dent in one problem besetting prison officials across the country: the high cost of aging inmates.

under three strikes, a person convicted of a felony in California who has two or more prior convictions for certain offenses must be sentenced to at least 25-years-to-life in state prison, even if the third offense is nonviolent.

The American Civil Liberties Union and other prison-reform advocates point to three-strikes laws (California's was passed in 1994) as the prime driver for an increase in older inmates. Older prisoners are less likely to re-offend, advocates argue, and many can be safely released to ease prison overcrowding.
Yet attempts to reform three strikes in California have stalled both in the legislature and at the ballot box.

http://news.yahoo.com/softer-california-three-strikes-law-save-older-inmates-050421459.html

[aboutime]

It only takes ONE STRIKE to put all California Politicians in Jail. Let them take the place of the Three Strike Prisoners, and let them invade Pelosi-Land where Barney Frank goes for his GAY Vacation retreats in THAN FRAN THISCO.

[PostmodernProphet]

Brilliant!.....take a sixty year old man who hasn't had a job in forty years, has no assets, no health plan, no home.....and put him on the street.....why didn't we think of this before!......

[Shadow]

Brilliant!.....take a sixty year old man who hasn't had a job in forty years, has no assets, no health plan, no home.....and put him on the street.....why didn't we think of this before!......

I think they actually want to then try and set them up with free housing,medicaid and other benefits. Either way the Tax payer still pays for them.

[fj1200]

It only takes ONE STRIKE to put all California Politicians in Jail. Let them take the place of the Three Strike Prisoners, and let them invade Pelosi-Land where Barney Frank goes for his GAY Vacation retreats in THAN FRAN THISCO.

Oh for the love of...

[ConHog]

Oh for the love of...

:laugh:

[ConHog]

Brilliant!.....take a sixty year old man who hasn't had a job in forty years, has no assets, no health plan, no home.....and put him on the street.....why didn't we think of this before!......


So you advocate keeping people locked up for no other reason that they would be a burden?

[Thunderknuckles]

If there is some empirical data that supports the assertion that older victims of the 3 strikes law are less likely to re-offend then I suppose I would give it a try for some criminals.
Murderers, probably not and Pedophiles are a definite no.