Three Strikes Law Analysis

The second solution I will be writing is about the people who are opposed to toughening the three strikes law in New Mexico City. However, the democrats have a strong antagonism for the three strikes law, mainly the senates, where there will be able to have a majority to say no on expanding the three strikes law. Nevertheless, there were many opponents who disagreed with Mayor Richard Berry that his solution will decrease the violent crime. According to the article, “More prison time won’t cut violent crime” by Matt Coyte, President of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association states that “The community’s knee jerk reaction demanding the incarceration of more people for longer periods of time is a path we have been down before and …show more content…
According to the article, “NM swims against criminal justice reform tide” by Joey Peters, Mathew Coyte highlights that tougher three strikes law is making our prison sentences overcrowded so quickly (Figure 6); that “the reality is people in the system know that is unsustainable as a way of running a criminal justice system. We don’t have big enough jails to sustain that” (Peters). He is arguing that they are so many criminals out there on the streets, but to make our city safe we don’t have enough prisons to lock all of them away. He said that tougher three strikes law would not work for us, it would wrongly take decision away from judges, increase prison population, and the complaints from people over prison conditions at the end it will end up damaging the state economy. I argue that even though the prison in New Mexico gets overcrowded with the tougher three strikes law, it should not be that big problem for many people because it is still helping them to keep the criminals off the streets, which is also helping the crime rate to go down and help us protect from those violent criminals. Sometimes, to achieve something, we need to lose