Nader/Camejo Supports Proposition 66
The "three-strikes" law is an $8.1 billion failure over its ten years in existence. The law has resulted in widespread injustice, no reductions in crime and misuse of scarce resources. At a time when California is in debt and borrowing money to pay for essential services, cutting other services and telling 7,000 students eligible to attend the University of California and California State University that the state can't afford to accommodate them it is no time to continue to waste money on an ineffective and unjust law.
The "three-strikes" law is an $8.1 billion failure over its ten years in existence. The law has resulted in widespread injustice, no reductions in crime and misuse of scarce resources. At a time when California is in debt and borrowing money to pay for essential services, cutting other services and telling 7,000 students eligible to attend the University of California and California State University that the state can't afford to accommodate them it is no time to continue to waste money on an ineffective and unjust law.
"The African-American incarceration rate for third strikes is 12 times higher than the third strike incarceration rate for Whites, and the Latino incarceration rate for a third strike is 45 percent higher than for Whites. For second and third strikes sentences combined, the African-American incarceration rate is over 10 times higher than the White incarceration rate; for Latinos its is 78 percent higher than the White rate".[SeeStill Striking Out: 10 Years of California's Three Strikes by Scott Ehlers, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg (Justice Policy Institute, 05 Mar 04).]
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