Three Strikes Law Criminal Justice Term Paper

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Locking up petty thieves and drug users (the overwhelming majority of them black and Latino males) for 25 years to life without the possibility of parole is a blatant violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment."

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Changes are needed in order to address the critical problem of overcrowding in U.S. Prisons and as well the fact that there are so many non-violent offenders housed with hardened and violent criminal individuals is as well a problem in the present structure of the prison system.

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Only legislation of this law into a modified workable solution will address all the relevant issues brought on by the "Three Strikes" law.

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