From OC Register:
Last week, supporters of an initiative to reform the Three Strikes law submitted more than 830,000 signatures to the state (they need just 504,760) to qualify for the November ballot. This would:
- require that a third strike be a serious or violent felony (right now, any felony triggers a third strike, 25-years-to-life sentence, even shoplifting);
- allow re-sentencing of third strikers currently serving life terms because of a “non-serious and non-violent felony” (they can be re-sentenced to twice the usual term for that offense);
- and save tens of millions of dollarsa year in the short run, and more than $100 million a year in the long run.
Three strikes reform could save $100 million a year http://t.co/1vjGOfYd
If you really want to save money on prisons. Identify the life time criminals and recycle them. In all manufacturing there are lemons and when you find one, recycle. There is no reason to store criminals for decades in a lockup. If they do not want to be free active citizens, then we should not want them either. End the game when it is over.