Supporters of Prop. 36 include not just progressives, but prominent Republicans like Grover Norquist and George Schultz.In 1996, Shane Taylor, a 27-year-old prep cook and married father, was arrested in California's Tulare County for possession of $5 worth of methamphetamine. If charged as a felony—as it was in this case—such an offense carries a minimum sentence of 16 months in prison. But Taylor had been convicted twice in the late '80s on felony burglary charges, so his petty meth possession earned him a life term under the state's "three strikes" law.
the only thing that the 3 strike law did was line the pockets of big business and their private prisons, they get filthy rich behind those in the legislature that impose over the board laws that are designed not for punitive reasons but for profit reasons, profits made by a 5.00 possession charge, not excusing burglary charges but 5 bucks being the determination of a life which will be added to your bill in the form of taxes. a third burglary or other felony yeah ok but 5 bucks, do you see the insanity of the dollar, dollar bill yah?
i believe like other nefarious plans by those who covet the bucks that this is intentional to the end being privatization, lowering voter rolls, and less Americans to oppose their "Pinky and the Brain" mentality.
change the congress and so many things will return to a sense of fair normalcy.
