Outrage over the crime led to the swift passage of the Three Strikes Law, which doubled an offender's sentence for a second felony conviction and required mandatory prison sentences of 25 years to life for a third conviction.
But now, as car break-ins and retail store theft rise, critics of criminal justice reform are calling for a return to harsher sentencing and pushing back on prosecutors who back restorative justice over longer prison sentences.
#three-strikes-law #polly-klaas #criminal-justice-reform #mass-incarceration #tough-on-crime-policies
Collection
[
|
...
]