Three Strike Law Research Paper

The Three Strike Law is a harsh sentencing law that was put in place to deter repeat felons from committing violent crimes. It went into effect in the early 1990’s with Washington State being the first to pass the law in 1993. More than half of the states in the United states, have adopted similar sentencing laws. California was enacted in March 1994, in response to the murder of two young girls the first, was eighteen-year-old Kimber Reynold who was killed by felon who snatched her purse. The second, well known younger girl by the name of Polly Klass, who was taken from her home in the middle of the night and subsequently murdered by yet another career criminal who had a violent past history of kidnapping, sexual assault, and burglary.
California …show more content…
The criminal justice system because they are backlogged with cases that come before them and from the number of appeals. The taxpayers, the inmates and the families left behind to deal with life without them due to the poor decisions they made and the get tough system can cause a tremendous burden both emotionally and financially. The cost of making phone calls, amount of transportation fees and visitation hours to see a loved one can make it next too impossible for families to stay in contact with inmates. It is important for the inmates for them to communicate with their family to maintain dignity, make them feel human and prevent despair and give them hope for the future if they are ever released. The children of the incarcerated need to maintain a relationship for sense of identity, to deter them from repeating the cycle. The spouses and parents need to stay in touch as well decrease depression, anxiety from lack of communication. Minorities are impacted as well the Justice Policy Institute based out of Washington DC reported that blacks have been incarcerated under the Three Strikes Law at ten times the rate of Caucasians, while the rate for Hispanics has been almost eighty percent higher than for