Even though this is only my second time in prison I am serving an 81 year to LIFE sentence for two assault charges and a strong arm robbery from a single case in which there was no physical injury.I was charged with eight prior strikes based on a single plea bargain in early 1994.Although my case was not a simple petty theft, as is the case with some, I don’t feel it is right .. 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.
