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GeorgeGist

(25,321 posts) Sun Oct 14, 2012, 03:24 PM Oct 2012

California's three-strikes law not successful as crime deterrent, study finds.

(Phys.org)—Contrary to what police, politicians and the public believe about the effectiveness of California's three-strikes law, research by a University of California, Riverside criminologist has found that the get-tough-on-criminals policy voters approved in 1994 has done nothing to reduce the crime rate.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-california-three-strikes-law-successful-crime.html#jCp

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Very lucrative for the prison industry however.

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California's three-strikes law not successful as crime deterrent, study finds. (Original Post) GeorgeGist Oct 2012 OP

Imagine that. Criminal justice isn't just like a baseball game. What a surprise. PSPS Oct 2012 #1

Prisons for profit is a crime in and of itself. nt Live and Learn Oct 2012 #2

It is a human and civil right abuse libodem Oct 2012 #3

Fascist Police State libodem Oct 2012 #4

PSPS

(13,599 posts)

1. Imagine that. Criminal justice isn't just like a baseball game. What a surprise.

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Sun Oct 14, 2012, 04:22 PM

Oct 2012

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)

2. Prisons for profit is a crime in and of itself. nt

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Sun Oct 14, 2012, 09:57 PM

Oct 2012

libodem

(19,288 posts)

3. It is a human and civil right abuse

Reply to GeorgeGist (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 11:47 PM

Oct 2012

As far as I'm concerned. Lack of freedom is dehumanizing. It makes you insane. It's a daily flogging for the mind. It is used far too much in this country. We are quickly becoming a Fascist Police state in the name of security.

libodem

(19,288 posts)

4. Fascist Police State

Reply to libodem (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 16, 2012, 07:03 PM

Oct 2012

Politics. That's what we are fighting.
We need to regain our civil liberties.
Clear up to the Patriot Act and Gitmo.
Right to our own abusive prison system.
It has become a for profit system.
Not a justice system.

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