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Related: About this forumCalifornia'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.
PSPS
(13,617 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)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)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.