Carmen is serving a 27 year to LIFE sentence under the Three Strikes law for possession of less than 1/2 gram of a controlled substance.She had no history of violence and could have been charged with a misdemeanor for the possession of this small amount of a drug, but instead the charge was changed from a misdemeanor to a felony under the Three Strikes provisions and she was given a 27 to LIFE .. more >>
Desperate families supported by FACTS
FACTS has been fighting many years against the cruelty and unfairness of the Three Strikes Law and organizes the families who have lost their loved ones to its cruelty:
In 2004 reporter Max Westerman made a report about Californian Three Strikers for Dutch Television:
We are involved in an all volunteer effort to qualify
"The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2008"
for the November '08 ballot.
If you think that the spending just under $1 billion dollars each year to imprison shoplifters and drug users is a tragic waste of tax dollars and you feel that giving a person caught with .05 grams of cocaine a life sentence amounts to cruel and unusual punishment, join us in our efforts to provide a solution to this travesty of justice.
