Nah I don't know... maybe I "don't understand" since I'm (gladly) not a USA citizen, but as far as I know there is scientific evidence that those "3 strikes your out" laws don't reduce crimes. Where I live, depending on the crimes ofcourse, people who committed (fairly low-impact) crimes are often released back into society in a controlled way. At the end of their sentence they are allowed to go out on the streets, and back to work, first supervised and later unsupervised. Or with an electronic ankle chain, or whatever it's called. And I think a lot of (former) criminals benefit from this way better then spending life in prison. Especially when you made poor life choices when you were relatively young/given the circumstances and committed crimes where people weren't (seriously) harmed.
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Nah I don't know... maybe I "don't understand" since I'm (gladly) not a USA citizen, but as far as I know there is scientific evidence that those "3 strikes your out" laws don't reduce crimes. Where I live, depending on the crimes ofcourse, people who committed (fairly low-impact) crimes are often released back into society in a controlled way. At the end of their sentence they are allowed to go out on the streets, and back to work, first supervised and later unsupervised. Or with an electronic ankle chain, or whatever it's called. And I think a lot of (former) criminals benefit from this way better then spending life in prison. Especially when you made poor life choices when you were relatively young/given the circumstances and committed crimes where people weren't (seriously) harmed.
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