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September 23, 2004
 Three Strikes and
You're Out:
3-Strike Laws; Ten Years After Their Enactment
Over the past decade since the inception of the Three Strikes
movement, Justice Policy Institute researchers have conducted numerous
analyses of the impact of the law in California and nationally. This is the
second of three reports the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) will prepare in this,
the tenth anniversary year of the Three Strikes and You're Out movement,
and the only one that will focus on the trend nationally. "Still Striking Out:
Ten Years of California's Three Strikes," which we released in March,
found that nearly two thirds of people sentenced to prison under California's version of Three Strikes were sentenced for nonviolent
offenses and that counties within California that used Three Strikes most
frequently had no better declines in crime than those that used the law
more sparingly.
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