three strikes, is it out?

TalkLeft has written about the reform of the three-strikes laws on the ballot in California.

Of California's 7,300 third-strikers, 4,200 are doing 25 years to life for a nonserious or nonviolent felony. Proposition 66 also requires judges to resentence these third-strikers, meaning some who have already served several years behind bars may be freed.



Proposition 66 does not eliminate the three-strikes law. It restores voters' original intent to keep violent criminals off the street for good.

yes, restore voters' original intent to keep violent criminals off the street. that's the key. sentencing a man to 25 years for stealing a carton of smokes was not the original intent.