Tag: three strikes law

This year’s election is said to be the most important election in voter history. Aside from having to decide whether Bush or Kerry will run our country, we as voters also have the difficult task of deciding which propositions should pass. The following are Campus Times’ endorsements.

“Three strikes and you’re out” should not apply to every wrong move, especially when it comes to certain crimes.

In an effort to improve the criminal justice system, a new initiative titled "The Three Strikes Act of 2000" will redesign the "three strikes law" to apply only to serious and violent felony offenders if approved by voters.

There is hope. Not a lot of hope, but it exists. An organization called "Citizens Against Violent Crime" has filed a new initiative titled "The Three Strikes Act of 2000." The initiative's goal is to change California's three strikes law so that it would only apply to violent and/or serious felonies. Finally! Some people have actually engaged in some kind of a reasonable thinking process. It was about time.